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I'm a terrible long-term planner.

Condoleezza Rice

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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Academic
Autobiographer
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Former United States Secretary Of State
Pedagogue
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Political Scientist
Politician
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Birmingham
Alabama
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We're all products of our environment, and I suspect that strength of will - the feeling, I'm going to be able to do whatever you put in front of me - is honed in an environment where not everything is easy. Ironically, growing up in that environment, you don't have a sense of aggrievement or entitlement. You just have a sense of overcoming.
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I never found anybody I wanted to spend my life with. People say, Didn't you want to get married? Well, sure, but it's not abstract, there has to be someone you want to marry. I'm pretty traditional. Marriage would have to come first, before kids.
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free markets, we are willing to support and defend them - we will sustain a balance of power that favors freedom.
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Education is of no value and talent is worthless - unless you have an unwavering aim. Never find yourself without a compass.
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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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