A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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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.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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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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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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