For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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 WaltersBarbara Walters 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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Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters I didn’t have a very religious family.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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 WaltersBarbara Walters When you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters 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 WaltersBarbara Walters 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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