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Condoleezza Rice Quotes

You go to war when there is a security threat, and Saddam Hussein was seen as a threat to our interests and our security.

Condoleezza Rice

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

War You Security Go Seen Threat

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

Character Great Influences British

Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here.

Jose Antonio Vargas

Teacher Myself Moment Me Writing

I'd rather be at home with 12 people around the table.

Home People Table Rather Around

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

Accomplishment Feel Moments Bigger

You know, it sounds corny, but I believe in myself. And I work hard.

Work Myself Work Hard Believe You

We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.

Humble Enough Mystery Stop Be Humble

But I will add, there's one thing I will not do, ever: I will never talk to you about things you cannot change. It plants a negativity in the head of a designer or the student, and it's a distraction.

Change Plants Negativity You Student

I've always admired people like Donal McCann. He wasn't a household name, but if he put his name to something, you were guaranteed a good yarn at the very least.

Liam Cunningham

Good People Name You Always Like

Now, there are sometimes making a connection between one section and another that sometimes you do want to see the pattern because it helps you to lead into the next thing - it's a rhetorical thing, where you just see how the pattern has to go into the next thing.

You Connection Go Sometimes Want

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Society Things Us Taught Certain

I'm a mess. My house is full of records, and my computer... I can't find the things that I want. But it usually seems to work out.

Work House Find Want Mess Out

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

Walls Adventure Free Partner Long

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