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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 69
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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Former United States Secretary Of State
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Birmingham
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What I tell student athletes is first of all, you've made good choices this far in order to be able to be in college and to be an athlete. Keep making good choices.
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But we do have confidence in our institutions. We are not Russia. We have an executive that is constrained. We have a legislature that is real. We have a press that is free. We have courts that are independent. This is not Russia.
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America cannot do most of what needs to be done alone. You need friends. And we have good friends around the world. We have friends with whom we share values in Europe and Asia - thanks to the forward march of democracy - in Latin America, in Africa, and increasingly in the Middle East.
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If I can look at your zip code and I can tell whether you're going to get a good education, we've got a real problem.
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I'm a terrible long-term planner.
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it is a longstanding principle that sitting national security advisers do not testify before the Congress.
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There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.
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I don't like anything that's just an escape. To me the best part of golf is that, unlike my tennis game, I can actually get better. I've probably reached my plateau in tennis, but in golf I have a lot of room for improvement. I really enjoy working on my game. I like practicing. I chart my rounds.
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I'm actually genuinely optimistic about the United States and what's possible in the United States. And when you're out here, you see Americans across racial and economic and socioeconomic lines working together. And you maybe get a little bit less cynical than when you sit in the seat of kind of the epicenter of it all.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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The first step for a leader is to be right with yourself. Integrity is the basis of leadership.
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Prejudice and bigotry are brought down...by the sheer force of determination of individuals to succeed and the refusal of a human being to let prejudice define the parameters of the possible.
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I remember classes in college where the professor was espousing certain theories about how blacks were inherently less intelligent. But I learned a long time ago to give people the benefit of the doubt, not to assume that somebody was reacting to you because of race.
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The PDB (Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S.) does not say the United States is going to be attacked. It says Bin Laden would like to attack the United States. I don't think you, frankly, had to have that report to know that Bin Laden would like to attack the United States.
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No American president can support an Egypt that calls into question the historic treaty between Israel and Egypt. And no American president can support an Egypt that doesn't fully recognize women's rights or the rights of religious minorities.
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You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.
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Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.
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It's so much a part of me that it's almost hard to describe myself in the absence of [faith].
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I've found my place in life, that I'm passionate about, my talents and my passion have merged, and I'm trying to do the best that I can.
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