Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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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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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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