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.
BARBARA WALTERSIf you were a tree, what kind would you be?
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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