Condoleezza Rice Quotes

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

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• How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Real

• I focus on the elements of a movie that are meant to invisibly affect me as a viewer. The edges. As an author, I'm aware of how the subconscious things can pluck at a reader's emotions, and I love it when filmmakers do the same.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Focus
  • Same
  • Author

• I am an Indian to the core.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Core
  • Indian

• I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
  • Book
  • Write
  • Fans

• The great thing about having a pool in L.A. is that I can use it year-round. And since I've always been an athlete, staying fit is very important.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Important
  • Athlete

• Yes, but if you take that crap and put a star in it, then you've got something.

  

  Ed Wood
  • You
  • Star
  • Take

• Women need to know that not all guys are going to hurt them the way that the guy did before they started dating me. I know guys I wouldn't go out with.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Women
  • Guy
  • Hurt

• I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it's really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it's all art.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Music
  • School
  • Art

• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Know
  • Events
  • Surprise

• The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Up
  • Done
  • Past

• My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Life
  • Done
  • Mother

• But there's one thing we must all be clear about: terrorism is not the pursuit of legitimate goals by some sort of illegitimate means. Whatever the murderers may be trying to achieve, creating a better world certainly isn't one of their goals. Instead they are out to murder innocent people.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • World
  • Trying

• The things that are going to be in all my records, for as long as I'm making them, are going to go back to who I am and where I'm from and the lifestyle that I live and come from - and I don't know how I could ever get any of that close enough to pop to be considered a pop act.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Live
  • Records
  • Lifestyle

• Fact: If standard of living is your number one objective, quality of life almost never improves. But if quality of life is your number one objective, standard of living invariably improves.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Living

• Life is full of surprises: new opportunities come up; that's part of the fun - the adventure of life. The thing is, chaos doesn't allow us to enjoy the adventure.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• Everybody wonders why I continue working at this stage. I keep working because there's always new stories. … And as long as people want me to tell them, I'll be there doing them.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Nine times out of 10 when people do a tribute album or tribute songs for somebody, it's what I call 'white boys playing reggae'. They know they can't, we know they can't, so they sing like they can't and play like they can't. They gently make fun of the idiom or sing in a false accent.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • People
  • Fun

• This week I was proud to join with my colleagues to help pass two important, common-sense pieces of legislation that will limit the frivolous lawsuits by trial attorneys and personal injury lawyers that clog our courts and hurt our small businesses.

  

  Bob Ney
  • Important
  • Help
  • Small

• The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can.

  

  Christopher Fry
  • Home
  • Lost

• I kind of knew I wasn't going to get in there in the first half, ... I was glad I did finally get in there. Toward the end I was getting a little nervous? 'Oh, I hope I get a chance to work these kinks out.'

  

  Cedric Benson
  • Chance
  • Nervous
  • Half

• We consider it tedious to talk of the weather, and yet there is nothing more important.

  

  Berthold Auerbach
  • Important
  • Consider
  • Weather

• I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

  

  Doris Lessing
  • World
  • Children
  • War

• This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

  

  Condoleezza Rice