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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That's what I love doing.

Condoleezza Rice

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Condoleezza Rice
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: November 14
Academic
Autobiographer
Diplomat
Former United States Secretary Of State
Pedagogue
Pianist
Political Scientist
Politician
University Teacher
Birmingham
Alabama
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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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We [The United States] believe the Iranian people want a future of freedom and human rights: the right to vote, to run for office, to express their views without fear and to pursue political causes. We would welcome the progress, prosperity and freedom of the Iranian people.
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My job is to try to advance American foreign policy, to try to advance the president's agenda on democracy and human rights.
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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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[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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Self esteem comes from achievements. Not from lax standards and false praise.
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I believe in having a private life.
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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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I think the word of the United States has been as good as gold in its international dealings and its agreements.
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I'm very proud that President [George W.] Bush took on AIDS relief. It was the largest single response by any country to a major international health crisis, and there are millions of people who are alive today in Africa and other developing countries because of that program.
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerable in ways that we didn't fully understand.
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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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It takes courage to set priorities because doing so is an admission that American policy cannot be all things to all people - or rather to all interest groups
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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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Most days are not overwhelmingly successful in your life. And what really marks whether you're going to be successful is how well you deal with the bad days, not how well you deal with the good ones.
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I've never really been a workaholic.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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