Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters – and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
BARBARA WALTERSThe hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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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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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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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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If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
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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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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
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The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
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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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The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
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Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.
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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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If it’s a woman, it’s caustic; if it’s a man, it’s authoritative.
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