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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There is much the government can do and should do to improve the environment. But even more important is the individual who plants a tree or cleans a corner of neglect. For it is the individual who himself benefits, and also protects a heritage of beauty for his children and future generations.
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I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'
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Moments are incredible, but in my fantasy mind I see a Globe company which is renowned throughout the world for what it does with pure storytelling. So that people come and say: it's not just the building, it's the only place you can hear this kind of work.
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I wanted to do something heroic if I was going to be on TV. And the first thing that appeals to me once I have decided I don't want to be the bad guy is to find things that are not black and white.
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I'm ashamed I didn't change my behavior until I was forced to do so by circumstance and by others. The reality is, I was stopped from further bad actions by those who spoke up about my offenses, at substantial risk to their personal and professional reputations... and subsequently, by Christine and others on the 500 team.
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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.
