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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'If gold must be gold, it must pass through the furnace.'
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We were a very insufficient crew for such a vessel; and if any one had proposed to us to make such a voyage in it before we had been forced to go through so many hardships from necessity, we would have turned away with pity from the individual making such proposal as from a madman. I pondered this a good deal, and at last concluded that men do not know how much they are capable of doing till they try, and that we should never give way to despair in any undertaking, however difficult it may seem...
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I didn't mean to be a TV presenter, I just hated modeling. It feels very odd that it's turned into this 'It-girl' thing. What does that even mean? I wear clothes and I go out. It's so weird.
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...it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
