I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
BARBARA WALTERSThe news media in general are liberals.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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Because there are so many shows on and because I’ve been so hands-on – I’ve had a piece on almost every single week – I don’t know how to cut back on that. You really can’t.
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Every genius I have met could be classified as crazy by most people. They possess the highest level of sanity that us people find difficult to understand and accept.
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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Parents 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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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 good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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First of all, the Jewish religion has a great deal in common with the Christian religion because, as Rabbi Gillman points out in the show, Christianity is based on Judaism. Christ was Jewish.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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