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BARBARA WALTERSWhen you’re interviewing someone, you’re in control. When you’re being interviewed, you think you’re in control, but you’re not.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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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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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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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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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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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.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
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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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Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
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I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn’t pronounce my R’s. I wasn’t a beauty.
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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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