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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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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I actually don't mind rats at all. I kind of think they're quite cute, but that's just me.
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I feel like I am a better person because of my struggles, because of my challenges and persevering through them and realizing the mistakes that I've made, correcting them.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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You are a good friend and we welcome you.
