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.
BARBARA WALTERSWait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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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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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Although I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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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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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