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Condoleezza Rice Quotes

I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person, and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

Condoleezza Rice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: statesman
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1954

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Father Time Chance Think Thought

We need comedies in the world! We need to laugh, it's all so hard.

World Laugh Need Hard Comedies

I was a lawyer for 10 years - a short time, but it molded me into who I am. My clients were little people fighting big corporations, so it was a natural thing to not only represent the little guy but also to pull for him - it's the American way.

Time I Am People Me Lawyer Fighting

The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

Class Clown Competitive Being Very

I tell people all the time like, man, when you a kid, you don't know you're in the hood, or you don't know you poor. You just accepting your environment when you a child, and that's when your friends are really your friends, wholeheartedly and nothing malicious.

Michael Beasley

Time Man Child People Friends Hood

I'm not somebody who throws myself out in front of things.

Myself Out Things Somebody Who

Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system.

Sonia Sotomayor

Alone Accept Context System Bring

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

Steven Van Zandt

Know Street Leaving Never Band Left

For years following the death of my mother, I wanted to write about her. I started writing what I thought of as personal essays about growing up as her child, but I never could finish any of them. I think I was too close to that loss, and too eager to try and resolve things, to make her death make sense.

Mother Death Child Growing Up Think

I oughta be rich. But, you know, if you don't spend all your time looking after money, somebody else will. The guys who look after money, they're the ones who get the money.

Time Money Looking Rich You Look

The frontier in space, embodied in the space colony, is one in which the interactions between humans and their environment is so much more sensitive and interactive and less tolerant of irresponsibility than it is on the whole surface of the Earth.

Rusty Schweickart

Space Environment Earth More Surface

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

Good Leader Spiritual People Thought

When George Bush asked me to sign on, it obviously wasn't because he was worried about carrying Wyoming. We got 70 percent of the vote in Wyoming, although those three electoral votes turned out to be pretty important last time around.

Time Me Important Three Vote Out

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