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 WALTERSFor a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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Homogeneity is much to be admired – in milk, for instance – but not for parties.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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The news media in general are liberals.
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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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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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But for Muslims, everything that they don’t have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
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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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I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code – even though it was a great yawn – also showed people’s interest in religion.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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Life sometimes brings enormous difficulties and challenges that seem just too hard to bear. But bear them you can, and bear them you will, and your life can have a purpose.
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