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I don't think that anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile.
Condoleezza Rice
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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
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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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[In] the United States, we've always been held together by the belief that it doesn't matter where you came from. It matters where you're going.
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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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At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.
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I'm happy and content in my life, and I chalk that up to wonderful parents and a wonderful God.
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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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When I went off to college, I was expecting to be a concert musician. In music school I heard all of these kids who were just unbelievable. And I understand that you can be very, very good, but there's something that separates very, very good from great, and I knew that I wasn't great.
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Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next.
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You do have to keep in mind as you're going through extraordinarily difficult circumstances, that if you stay true, true to your values, if you stay true to your principles, if you believe in these values, then you can work in that context to right policies that may not be working.
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You know, I look at Vladimir Putin as somebody who is an eye-for-an-eye kind of person. We questioned the legitimacy of his election in 2012, Secretary Clinton did - rightly, by the way. It did have - it was quite fraudulent.And so I think he's saying now, I'm going to show you that I can do the same thing.
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We can't live true to our set of values unless American educational system is strong. I really believe that if we don't get that right we will not compete because we won't believe that our people can compete, and we'll turn inward. We won't lead. That will be bad for the world.
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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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Out of struggle very often comes victory.
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Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.
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We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we can't continue to have the kind of defiance of the United Nations, the defiance of the international community that we've had.
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If you cannot allow people to do their jobs ... nobody with substance and creativity will work for you.
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You never cede control of your own ability to be successful to something called racism.
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