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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

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 Guard Moments Reveal Self Sleep True
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Hard Trust Willing Yourself
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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Authority Man Woman
All of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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Believe Buddhism Heaven
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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Causes Facts Unfortunate
Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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Instance Milk Party
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
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Blame Children Firsts
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with their command of obscure words.
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Command Greatness Intelligence People Thinking Willing Word
Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna – or it can smooth the edges, take away the insecurities, let the nice things come out.
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Nice Success Women
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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Earth Education Freedom Literacy Nation Start
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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Crazy Genius People
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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Attractive Males Percentage
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
I didn’t have a very religious family.
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Religious Religious Family
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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Adventure Country Moving

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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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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