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Like democracy itself, jazz has structure, but within it you can say almost anything.

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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
Politician
Screenwriter
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
District of Columbia
Susan Elizabeth Rice
Democracy
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Jazz
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I don't get drunk, I get a little happy on rare occasion, and I'm probably dancing if I'm that happy.
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I think one of the real issues that we're faced with is how we consume news, how the media is perceived, how fake news is gaining a degree of currency without criticism that is dangerous, in my judgement.
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Can I be blunt? Yes. Can I be diplomatic? Yes. Can I concoct a mixture of vinegar and honey when the circumstances warrant? Yes.
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I am blunt when I want to be.
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I have been to Libya and walked the streets of Benghazi myself.
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Well, I think by any expectation South Africa has come a tremendously long way. We've seen a society that many people thought couldn't withstand a peaceful transition to democracy without a great deal of violence, in fact, make that transition and do it in relative peace and security.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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One can't erase the tremendous burden of apartheid in 10 years, 20 years, I believe, even 30 years.
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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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It may not be what you would've chosen, but we all have a responsibility to be active citizens and shape our system and our future.
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If you want change, you have to make it. If we want progress we have to drive it.
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I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.
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I do leisure reading but I don't get to do it like, at one in the morning. When I getting up at six in the morning, so I do most of my leisure reading on vacation and on airplanes and that sort of stuff.
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I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.
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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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I like to think that with me, what you see is what you get, and you can like or dislike it, it's up to you, but it's straight. That's something that I pride myself on.
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President Obama is an extraordinary person to work with and for.
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Americans understand that our security is enhanced when the United States is trusted and respected in the world.
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Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention they are in fact inextricably linked.
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