I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
BARBARA WALTERSFor Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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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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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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To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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When your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
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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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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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