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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.

Barbara Walters

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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Background Better Information Myself Party World
Work harder than everybody. You’re not going to get it by whining, and you’re not going to get it by shouting, and you’re not going to get it by quitting. You’re going to get it by being there.
BARBARA WALTERS

Hard Work Quit Shout Yourself
If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
BARBARA WALTERS

Authority Man Woman
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

People Perfect Talking
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Myself Prayer Religious Superstition Time
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Party People Technique
I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
BARBARA WALTERS

Enough Myself Unknown Yourself
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
BARBARA WALTERS

Approval Comfortable Man
Après ski is my favorite sport.
BARBARA WALTERS

Favorite Skis Sports
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn’t.
BARBARA WALTERS

Literature Poetic Thinking
The news media in general are liberals.
BARBARA WALTERS

General Liberty Media
Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
BARBARA WALTERS

Blunt Brainstorming Women
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
BARBARA WALTERS

Modern Party Share
The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bigger Castro Feelings
Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
BARBARA WALTERS

Gossip Interest Myself People
A conversation isn’t a competition.
BARBARA WALTERS

Competition Conversation Practice

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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