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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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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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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The polls and the pundits and the media seem to talk to each other. It's sort of like an echo chamber.
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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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It breaks my heart that I don't see my daughters every day, don't get to hug them and brush their hair.
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Create around one at least a small circle where matters are arranged as one wants them to be.
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In the case of a man and a woman accused of committing a crime together, both will often agree to the man taking the rap-despite the man being more likely to receive a longer sentence and more likely to be raped in prison. If blacks were agreeing to do that for whites, the black community would be smart enough to call that ‘learned subservience.’
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Mind is the first and most direct thing in our experience; all else is remote inference.
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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.
