The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
BARBARA WALTERSParents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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