Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
BARBARA WALTERSMr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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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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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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Although 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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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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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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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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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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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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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there.
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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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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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Après ski is my favorite sport.
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And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
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Although 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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