Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.
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When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
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We have overcome some terrible blows to our democracy, to the future of our democracy, to the future of our nation. We survived the Civil War and the strife that tore this nation apart.
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We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another.
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I was seeing a lot of really good things about Get Shorty when it came out, and my wife pointed out that if you validate the good reviews, you also have to validate the bad reviews.
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I didn't want to kill a man. I'm not capable of killing a man. I wanted to kill a tyrant.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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My views about the safety of Jews in the world have not been changed by the work on the Dreyfus affair or, for that matter, by the work I did on Franz Kafka for the book on him I published a year before the Dreyfus book appeared.
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I support anyone finding their worth despite being told they can't do something.
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Something I like to do is watch someone else do their thing.
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Between France and Senegal there's a history. There's a language that we both speak. There's a culture that we share and to which both of our peoples have contributed. But beyond our history, beyond our language, beyond the links that have united us for so long, what unites us today is the future.
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In time of war all countries behave equally badly, because the power of action is handed over to stupid and obstinate men.
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You are a good friend and we welcome you.
