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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.

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

Dinner Guests Nbc Party
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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Insecurity Smooth Success Way Yourself
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 WALTERS

Feeling Job Value Yourself
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.
BARBARA WALTERS

Bears Challenges Purpose
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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Complaining Fighting Jobs
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 WALTERS

Control Interview Thinking Yourself
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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Modern Party Share
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 WALTERS

Drink Earth Heaven Paradise Pleasure Sex Yourself
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
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
BARBARA WALTERS

Benefits Office Thinking
The news media in general are liberals.
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General Liberty Media
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 WALTERS

Everything Heaven Literature Sex
And I really do believe that the most important thing is the way you live your life on earth. But I think it’s enormously comforting to believe that you’re going to see your loved ones.
BARBARA WALTERS

Believe Comfort Enormously Life Live Thinking
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 WALTERS

Interviewing Someone Thinking
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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Dead Drop Gorgeous Kind Tree
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

Himself Poet Scripture Thinking

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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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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