[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be — I shouldn’t say this at Christmastime — but the next messiah.
BARBARA WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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The news media in general are liberal. If you want to be a reporter, you are going to see poverty and misery, and you have to be involved in the human condition.
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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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A conversation isn’t a competition.
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I first interviewed Fidel Castro 39 years ago. He was charming and fiercely guarded about his private life. He called our interviews ‘fiery debates.’ During our times together, he made clear to me that he was an absolute dictator and that he was a staunch opponent of democracy.
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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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