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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For me, awards are a token of respect that people are giving me. So no matter how many awards I am receiving, I always feel emotional.
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Last but not least among serial killer methodologies, we have women who kill their own children.
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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.
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I've been a loner all the time throughout my life... I haven't been the best father... Many times... my children have accused me of not giving them enough attention. And, frankly, I never have been good at handling that.
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Since in the long run deception is likely to be found out, your character had better not only seem good, but be it.
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You are a good friend and we welcome you.
