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 WALTERSAll of the religions – with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn’t believe in a heaven – teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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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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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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Large cocktail parties are an infamous technique for ridding yourself of social obligations to people you usually don’t know well or like much, which is such an unpromising beginning that I’ve rarely known one that recovered and turned into a great party.
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Don’t let the bastards get you down.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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I don’t know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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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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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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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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A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
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I also found that for myself, since I’ve had no religious education, it was so interesting to see the different versions of heaven and what life on earth means.
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I’ve done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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I didn’t have a very religious family.
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