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Après ski is my favorite sport.
A conversation isn't a competition.
Don't let the bastards get you down.
I didn't have a very religious family.
The news media in general are liberals.
If you were a tree, what kind would you be?
Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt.
The hardest thing you will ever do is trust yourself.
Children are God's way of punishing us for having sex.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
A Hot Fudge Sundae and a trashy novel is my idea of heaven.
I didn't get ahead by sleeping with people. Girls, take heart!
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
For a man who likes to talk, Fidel Castro does very few interviews.
The feeling is that Fidel Castro's much bigger than he actually is.
A good laugh makes any interview, or any conversation, so much better.
I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
when your child is in trouble, the first thing you do is blame yourself.
Homogeneity is much to be admired - in milk, for instance - but not for parties.
I regret not having more children. I would have loved to have had a bigger family.
Just do your job. Get in early. Stay late, and don’t complain. Fight the big fights.
A man cannot be comfortable [or cannot be made comfortable] without his own approval.
The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
The way you dress is the billboard that tells perceptive people how you feel about yourself.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.
Motherhood is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy.
Show me someone who never gossips, and I will show you someone who is not interested in people.
Being a parent is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love, you can get a puppy
A job is not a career. I think I started out with a job. It turned into a career and changed my life.
Celebrities used to be found in clusters, like oysters - and with much the same defensive mechanisms.
I think most working relationships could benefit by excluding personal matters from the office chatter.
No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Most of us have trouble juggling. The woman who says she doesn't is someone whom I admire but have never met.
The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
[On being indecisive and changeable:] On my gravestone I want inscribed: 'On the other hand, maybe I should have lived.
Most attractive males talk to most attractive women as if they were Rotarians comparing sales percentages in Des Moines.
I was the kind nobody thought could make it. I had a funny Boston accent. I couldn't pronounce my R's. I wasn't a beauty.
Small children do not belong at an adult party, and especially should not be used like trained midgets to help serve martinis.
Parents of young children should realize that few people, and maybe no one, will find their children as enchanting as they do.
When you're interviewing someone, you're in control. When you're being interviewed, you think you're in control, but you're not.
The origin of a modern party is anthropological: humans meet and share food to lower hostility between them and indicate friendship.
Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
For Castro, freedom starts with education. And if literacy alone were the yardstick, Cuba would rank as one of the freest nations on Earth.
[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.
New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.