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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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Susan Rice
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: November 17
Diplomat
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United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Washington
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Susan Elizabeth Rice
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South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.
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I have to separate my personal concerns from my professional responsibilities.
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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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The United States share of the African market it's very small, it's only about 8 percent.
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Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is democratic and respects human rights, it too may well be a source of much greater instability as political repression limits the ability of the people of Nigeria to achieve their full potential.
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I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.
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Since I've had a career, my hair has been more or less professional.
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Legislation that would withhold funding for the United Nations is fundamentally flawed in concept and practice, sets us back, is self-defeating, and doesn't work.
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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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Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.
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Change doesn't happen with people sitting on their behinds, getting lazy.
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There is not an inherent contradiction between a Ukraine that has longstanding historic and cultural ties to Russia, and a modern Ukraine that wants to integrate more closely with Europe.
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If you're trying to get something done, there will always be people who don't want to see you get something done, or who have a stake in the status quo. And if they approach that through ad hominem criticism of you, you've got to have enough confidence and thickness of skin to be able to endure.
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President Obama has got the most moderate temperament.
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I was working with a number of African heads of state. And after their initial surprise, I think many of them just treated me as they would anybody else. They had to deal with me as a representative of the United States of America, and the United States of America was too important to be dismissed or ignored on any grounds.
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I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else.
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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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Once you've learned to study in a bathing suit on the grass with muscled men throwing frisbees over your head, you can accomplish almost anything.
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All of us as citizens have to be consumers and judges.
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What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.
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