For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
BARBARA WALTERSSmall children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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[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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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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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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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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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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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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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