Condoleezza Rice Quotes
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.
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I was a little girl fighting as a partisan against Nazi-Fascism.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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Whenever I'm in Des Moines, I always make a trip to Manhattan Deli for a sandwich. I spent a lot of time there when I was going to college at Drake, so it's usually my one 'go-to' food stop when I'm in town.
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Your mind is what makes everything else work.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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And when did mere preaching do any good? Put something in the place of these things. Fill the vacuum of the mind.
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My father became the Mayor of Indian Wells, California, a tony desert enclave of rich, conservative Republicans.
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A good leader must be fair.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.
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I would make a poor vegetarian because I adore meat.
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Now that our kids are getting older, they need their space. We dug out the basement so they will have a place to go crazy in the wintertime. My son is already talking about how he's going to make a skateboard ramp. It's just a mosh pit down there, so they can do whatever they want. We're not even going to finish it.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I am a lifelong Democrat.
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It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work.
