Barbara Walters Quotes
I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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I've lived in New York for a really long time.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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China's development is an opportunity for the international community, for Japan and for the Asia-Pacific.
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Most of my fans, if you were to look on their iPods, you'd see every possible genre of music represented in some capacity.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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Most organisms have loads of junk DNA - less pejoratively, noncoding DNA - cluttering their cells.
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Our underwear used to just be cotton, but we wanted to see if we could create something out of synthetics.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
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I can't say 'I'm proud to say' - because it's not a choice for many Americans - but I can say I'm fortunate enough to not be raising my kids on McDonald's.
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those who despair of life are not long for it.
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
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Poetry might be more about the eternal verities, the essence of the human soul, and - although it's reductive to say so - fiction has perhaps been more about the differences between the unconstrained world of the imagination and the realities you run into, day-to-day, when you're riding your donkey.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
