It’s a fact that it is much more comfortable to be in the position of the person who has been offended than to be the unfortunate cause of it.
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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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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[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.
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Most old people … are disheartened to be living in the ailing house of their bodies, to be limited physically and economically, to feel an encumbrance to others – guests who didn’t have the good manners to leave when the party was over.
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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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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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A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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politics … is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It’s not only a conversation-wrecker, it’s a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.
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People sinking into self-pity and depression are dreary, but they can’t get out of it by themselves. So every now and then, just sit there and listen, and listen, and listen. You’re paying your membership dues in the human race.
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Don’t worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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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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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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[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: ‘On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
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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.
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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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Mr. President, Mrs. Obama. There is a photograph of you [hugging] that went viral, became the most shared photograph in the history of Twitter. How do you keep the fire going?
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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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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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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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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The feeling is that Fidel Castro’s much bigger than he actually is.
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