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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
Journalist
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Television Presenter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
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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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I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
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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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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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Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
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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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[President Obama] made so many promises. We thought that he was going to be -- I shouldn't say this at Christmastime -- but the next messiah.
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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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A conversation isn't a competition.
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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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A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
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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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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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Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
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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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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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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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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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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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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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