Condoleezza Rice Quotes
...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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Perhaps no other body of literature is as subject to political pressures from within the community as gay fiction.
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I'm focused on energy only. And I know what I'm talking about. And I don't want to be distracted on other things.
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It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.
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If the world is an objective reality that exists independently of us, then humans themselves, even in their own eyes, are nothing more than objects, and their life stories merely a series of disconnected historical accidents, which they may wonder at, but which they themselves have nothing to do with.
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Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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The greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
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Neither the United States nor Israel has the capacity to impose a unilateral solution in the Middle East.
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If I'm going to produce something, it's going to be with somebody I think is special. Once I go beyond a handful of directors, like Scorsese, there are very few I want to work with.
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No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.
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Charm of personality is a divine gift that sways the strongest characters and sometimes even controls the destinies of nations.
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The trick to acting is not to show off; it's to think the thoughts of the character. I was lucky because when I started acting, it was doing jobs above pubs. I learned to act in anonymity, so by the time people saw me, I knew what I was doing. I was crap for years, but no one saw me being crap. It's a trade you learn.
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A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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In my first publishable research, I obtained evidence that the replication of polio viral RNA engendered a multi-stranded intermediate, although my description of that intermediate proved flawed in its details.
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It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.
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Groupon is a great concept packaged in a superb name, but the concept of group discounts is not new.
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The Brits are perfectly capable of managing the Brits and don't need Brussels telling them how to manage things.
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Well, I'm getting better. It'll never be as it was. It affected the right side of my face. It's no big deal. You look at this guy here, and to think I've got problems.
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Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you're good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
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The weaving of mankind into one community does not imply the creation of a homogeneous community, but rather the reverse; the welcome and adequate utilization of distinctive quality in an atmosphere of understanding... Communities all to one pattern, like boxes of toy soldiers, are things of the past, rather than of the future.
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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of the principles that leads the course of the musical suite, reflecting changes (fluidsolid passages: water/ice/fire) or movements (ebb/flow/wave, inspiration/expiration) or inside-outside passages (door/individual/crowd). Thus, the perceived object is not entirely what we would have liked it to be. Our music brings us closer to some while it takes us away from others: each with their own inside.
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...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
