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.
BARBARA WALTERSLife 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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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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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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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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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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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