For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
BARBARA WALTERS[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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