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.
BARBARA WALTERSDon’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn’t.
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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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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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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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 liberals.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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