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 WALTERSBefore 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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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New 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.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn’t is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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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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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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