A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
BARBARA WALTERSAlthough I myself don’t go to church or synagogue, I do, whether it’s superstition or whatever, pray every time I get on a plane. I just automatically do it. I say the same thing every time.
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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 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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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.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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 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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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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The news media in general are liberals.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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