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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More Barbara Walters Quotes
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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 have a very religious family.
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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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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another’s life.
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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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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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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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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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This is what I tell, especially young women, fight the big fights. Don’t fight the little fight… Be the first one in, be the last one out. Do your homework, choose your battles. Don’t whine, and don’t be the one who complains about everything. Fight the big fight.
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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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The word ‘charismatic’ was made for Fidel Castro. You would have liked him, I would have liked him. Then you had to stop and say, ‘Just a minute. This is a man who does not believe in freedom of the press…does not believe in democracy as we know democracy, had political prisoners.’
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Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
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Don’t confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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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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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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Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
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