I didn’t have a very religious family.
BARBARA WALTERSNew 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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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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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.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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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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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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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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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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