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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.

Barbara Walters

Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Celebrity Defensive Found Mechanism
Before 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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Airplane Clouds Rainbow
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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Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
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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Background Better Information Myself Party World
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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Feeling Image Myself Personality
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Instance Milk Party
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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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Heart Myself People Sleep
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Enough Myself Unknown Yourself
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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Democracy Together Years
Before 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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Beyond Cloud Finding Myself Place Thinking
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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Party People Technique
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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Career Change Job Life Myself Start Thinking
Wait 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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Children Self Sleep
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Hands Should Have Want

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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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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