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.
BARBARA WALTERSThe 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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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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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The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener is growing restless. The signal isn’t perfect at any age – drink, for instance, throws it right out of kilter – but it is almost non-existent in old people.
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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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