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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.

Barbara Walters

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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Cuba Earth Yardsticks
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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Modern Party Share
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
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Everybody Hard Quitting Shout Work
[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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Leadership Reality Voting
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation
When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Trouble Yourself
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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Basic Better Feeling Goodness Man Nice World
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Education Mean Religious
A conversation isn’t a competition.
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Competition Conversation Practice
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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Cutting Hands Pieces
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Down Low Yourself
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Drawn Hardest Motivation Trust Yourself
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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Career Change Job Life Myself Start Thinking
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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Children Self Sleep
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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Himself Poet Scripture Thinking
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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Dangerous Family Future Job Land Politics Subject
If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Aggression Authority Best Man Woman Word
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Kind Tree Yourself
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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Admire Juggle Meet Myself Trouble
I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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Different Education Heaven Life Meaning Religious Version
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Admire Food Party Milk
Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Best Business Entrepreneur Entrepreneurs Successful
I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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Interesting People Spiritual
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Breathe Deep Party Shallow
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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People Thinking Voice
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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Cream Heaven Ice Ideas

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