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.
BARBARA WALTERSNew York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It’s a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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