For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
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.
More Barbara Walters Quotes
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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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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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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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When 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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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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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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Children are God’s way of punishing us for having sex.
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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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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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I didn’t get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
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If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
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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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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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