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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The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.
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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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And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
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- Mr. Churchill you were given a mission. - Yes - I want to have been given your mission. I want your place in world events, the centrality of it. You were born in the cradle of a catapult! - You are wrong. I found my mission. - I disagree. - If you must. - Tell me: where is my mission? Where are my bunkers and trenches, my goddamn Gallipoli?
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A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.
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Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
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...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
