Condoleezza Rice quote: "We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability."

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You aren't going to be successful as a diplomat if you don't understand the strategic contex...
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We need a common enemy to unite us.
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I remember, when I was 6 years old, we were having an event at school where different dolls were on ...
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I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instan...
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What you know today can affect what you do tomorrow. But what you know today cannot affect what you ...
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My father joined our party because the Democrats in Jim Crow Alabama of 1952 would not register him ...
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The idea the president of the United States was warned that Al-Qaeda was going to attack the United ...
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire ...
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I'm quite content to spend my life helping young people find themselves. I've had my fill of...
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The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion ...
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The day has to come when it's not a surprise that a woman has a powerful position.
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Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same.
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Foreign policy simply cannot be judged by today's headlines that chalk up victories and defeats ...
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That was a sin: to consider yourself victimized or not able to control your destiny or your fate - t...
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Success is not assured, but America is resolute: this is the best chance for peace we are likely to ...
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I will never forget the bright September day, standing at my desk in the White House, when my young ...
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I'm actually - believe it or not, for an academic - an aural learner.
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When people don't have a hopeful vision before them or the possible resolution of their difficul...
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The U.S. has since the end of World War II had an answer - we stand for free peoples and free market...
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We know that there are unaccounted-for Scud and other ballistic missiles in Iraq. And part of the pr...
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There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy b...
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I don't think anybody can take the word of Saddam Hussein and his regime, and certainly an Ameri...
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People notice if you are black. People notice if you are female. We are certainly not either colorbl...
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There's no doubt that it's still a dangerous place, Afghanistan. The fortunate thing is that...
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing dem...
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I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been sa...
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Well, there's been plenty of ultimatums, and one thing that we better be very clear is that we c...
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The quicker we get about the business of reducing our reliance on oil the better.
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The United States is committed to helping Iraq recover from the conflict, but Iraq will not require ...
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We needed to go back on the offense and offer clear leadership on Iraq,
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I'm saying there is no way that I will do this, because it's really not me. I know my streng...
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I wish someone had put a golf club in my hands, not skates on my feet. It is a really great game for...
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Our work has only begun. In our time we have an historic opportunity to shape a global balance of po...
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Some governments choose to cooperate with the United States in intelligence, law enforcement, or mil...
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People have the right to protest - that's what democracy is all about. I have no problem with pe...
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This is going to be a Palestinian process, and I think we have to give the Palestinians some room fo...
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a vicious act of terror, which the United States strongly condemns.
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message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.
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The United States will actively confront the policies of this Iranian regime, and at the same time w...
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There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 9/11 attacks.
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High quality aluminum tubes that are only really suited for nuclear weapons programs, centrifuge pro...
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I would like to attract more minorities into the game. But it's extremely important that this go...
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conditions of failed states to create conditions in which there's so much instability that you begin...
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I'm a very happy university professor... the best thing about being a university professor is th...
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Hamas is a little more than an enemy of the United States. Hamas, of course, is a terrorist organiza...
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It is high time that the international community tell Saddam Hussein and his regime that this is not...
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My mom was a teacher - I have the greatest respect for the profession - we need great teachers - not...
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There is no U.S.-European proposal to the Iranians. I want to say that categorically,
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It has been, after all, 11 years, more than a decade now, of defiance of U.N. resolutions by Saddam ...
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The North Koreans have been known to go around with glossy brochures about their ballistic missiles....
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a network that is spreading poisons throughout Europe.
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Everyone wants Russia to be a prosperous, democratic state that is fully integrated.
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They will talk about issues concerning the continued march of democracy in Europe and also in Russia...
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[Asked about that prospect in an interview with] Fox News Sunday, ... We'll see what happens this we...
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retrospective rewriting of the history.
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in the best tradition of democracy.
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The moment of truth is coming here, ... and it's time for the co-sponsors to get together and discus...
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is going to work hard to reform and strengthen the public diplomacy efforts.
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there is not going to be any pass for Palestinian leadership in fighting terror.
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will provide grants to help civil society strengthen the rule of law, to protect basic civil liberti...
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talked about our common struggle against terrorism.
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We will stick to the text of the Beijing [agreement], and I believe we can make progress if everybod...
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We will continue to work together in our common fight against terror.
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A lot is being done to bring additional protective measures, particularly the critical infrastructur...
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It again shows that people will take innocent life without any remorse...Jordan, of course, has been...
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I think we can't keep moving the bar for the Iraqis.
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Punish France, ignore Germany, and forgive Russia.
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I don't see myself in any way in elective office.
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This is the democratic process at work, ... What you're seeing with this process is the Iraqi people...
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This agreement is intended to give Palestinian people the freedom to move, to trade, to live ordinar...
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unfortunately on a path right now where relations are not improving, but are worsening.
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tremendous opportunity to achieve real security and lasting democracy and true reconciliation in the...
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They were interested, but they have never really demonstrated that they were interested in the Russi...
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Lebanon has to be free of foreign interference. This is an issue of national sovereignty for Lebanon...
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[Neighboring India called the assassination a] terrorist crime. ... a vicious act of terror.
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We were within international waters, we were within international airspace, when this incident occur...
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The problem here is that there will always be some uncertainty about how quickly Saddam can acquire ...
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We've always said that we were not going to have a cookie-cutter approach,
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I believe the title was 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States.'
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really has to be dealt with.
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The potential marriage of weapons of mass destruction with terrorism is everyone's nightmare.
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When I talk to students - and I still think of myself more than anything as a kind of professor on l...
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The United States stands with the people and government of Indonesia as they work to bring to justic...
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The administration looks constantly at the threat level, ... Late Edition.
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Hijacking before 9/11 and hijacking after 9/11 mean two very different things.
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Countries like Iran threaten the effectiveness of the global [nuclear] non-proliferation regime.
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He talked... about the cases of these American citizens and permanent residents and the importance o...
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differences can be a strength.
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For those critics to ignore their own past statements, exposes the hollowness of their current attac...
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I'm a huge proponent of exchanges, student exchanges, cultural exchanges, university exchanges. We t...
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I believe they are going to finish this, ... We are confident that they will complete this process a...
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at a Broadway show and shopping for shoes,
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I would even say that my parents, and their friends in our community, thought of education as a kind...
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But the truth of the matter is, we're an open society, we want to remain an open society, and th...
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I talked about the need for American leadership, I talked about the importance of the United States ...
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We have affirmed our just demands of the Syrian government and made it clear that failure with these...
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If I'd been a better long-term planner, I'd still be in music, as a musician someplace. So I...
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Peter Jennings represented all that was best in journalism and public service. His reporting was a g...
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So I think, if September 11 taught us anything, it taught us that we're vulnerable, and vulnerab...
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The people of the Middle East share the desire for freedom. We have an opportunity - and an obligati...
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We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up wit...
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One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another b...
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What has always made our country special is that it doesn't matter where you come from; it matte...
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amounts to a 12,200-page lie.
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We are not race blind. Of course we still have racial tensions in this country. But the United State...
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I got the chance to be the secretary of state; I'm an international relations specialist. It doe...
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I believe that while race-neutral means are preferable, it is appropriate to use race as one factor ...
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We will have to stand up for and promote the power and promise of free markets and free peoples, and...
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Hallmark makes beautiful films that feel as if they should be watched in a theater. The Hall family ...
LUANNE RICE

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to b...
ANNE RICE

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement...
GRANTLAND RICE

There's no dearth of kindness in this world of ours; Only in our blindness we gather thorns for ...
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I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ...
ANNE RICE

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
ANNE RICE

The things that are happening to me are unbelievable. I'm actually busier right now than when I ...
JERRY RICE

The kids are Job One. So, to be quite candid, if they need me, I do my utmost to make sure I'm t...
SUSAN RICE

Each song is a small universe to me. Each song has a story of its own. Each has a full life to expre...
DAMIEN RICE

Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and ...
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I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying...
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I was on paper earning more money and having more success than I'd ever had. And it was also the...
DAMIEN RICE

I opened up every can of worms I could. I got to the place where I would peel back one layer, and th...
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Leonard Cohen has a way with words and with humor that remind me to lighten up, which I appreciate v...
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to...
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There's a Nina Simone record that I love, 'Live at Vine Street,' and she sings flat on i...
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that...
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Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or gro...
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I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don...
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I am really curious about life, about why we are all here. I notice my skin is ageing, things are ch...
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I've learned very, very, very clearly that money does not equal happiness or security, either.
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Everyone is capable of everything.
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I don't want to stand in front of a whole lot of fakeys. If I'm going to meet someone and sa...
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able t...
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zo...
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When I started off in music, I started with a real innocence, a real love for the instrument, the wr...
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The best restriction I learned was getting into the habit of doing something, even if I didn't f...
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I do not want to be a robot, a cog in society who answers 'yes' because 'yes' is con...
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A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be ...
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I live with myself. I wake up with myself, I eat, and I take a dump with myself. I don't see any...
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Sometimes you have to step away from what you love in order to learn how to love it again.
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When I'm in a place like Iceland, I allow myself to take a little more time to divert off onto o...
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I want to get comfortable with my insecurities until I am no longer insecure. I want to be comfortab...
DAMIEN RICE

When you make his sandwiches, put a sexy or loving note in his lunch box . . .
ANNE RICE

Life has no meaning any more does it? The wine has no taste, the food sickens you, there seems no re...
ANNE RICE

You'll sing a song of victory, eternally, though there is none to be had.
ANNE RICE

I was particularly stunned by the casting of [Tom] Cruise, who is no more my Vampire LeStat than Edw...
ANNE RICE

But at that moment I heard Claudia's voice. She was calling my name. I turned, and, through the tang...
ANNE RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know w...
ANNE RICE

During this crisis you failed us
ANNE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--...
GRANTLAND RICE

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil... Evil is alwa...
ANNE RICE

Come on, say it again. I'm a perfect devil. Tell me how bad I am. It makes me feel so good!
ANNE RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ask. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

A large American automobile came crawling close to us, and we could hear from behind its thick windo...
ANNE RICE

It was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world...on a windsw...
ANNE RICE

There is one purpose to life and one only: to bear witness to and understand as much as possible of ...
ANNE RICE

The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and...
ANNE RICE

In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art - the dizzying perfection...
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes -- not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE

Merciful death! How you love your precious guilt.
ANNE RICE

Hope, the patent medicine for disease, disaster, sin.
WALLACE RICE

Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
ANNE RICE

What I don't understand about you is this, she said. You hold to your old belief in goodness with a ...
ANNE RICE

And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE

There are three forms of visual art: Painting is art to look at, sculpture is art you can walk aroun...
DAN RICE

Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE

For when the One Great Scorer comes
To write against your name,
He marks-not that you won or...
GRANTLAND RICE

Progress is the product of human agency. Things get better because we make them better. Things go wr...
SUSAN RICE

If we are to garner sustained U.S. domestic support for future trade agreements, we have to make sur...
SUSAN RICE

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no...
ANNE RICE

Montana and I had a chemistry that was unbelievable. When I first came into the league he told me I ...
JERRY RICE

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the q...
ANNE RICE

Here are a few of the actors who have brought my novels to TV life: Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter, Fran...
LUANNE RICE

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played th...
JERRY RICE

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the cont...
ANNE RICE

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.
GRANTLAND RICE

After graduating in the summer of 1980, I knew I wanted my life to count.
DONNA RICE

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...
ANNE RICE

I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very c...
ANNE RICE

I am a close friend of Robert Loggia. And I just love how, with actors, there's the screen perso...
LUANNE RICE

To be beyond any existing classification has always pleased me.
BOYD RICE

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a cat...
ANNE RICE

Shortly thereafter, some friends encouraged me to try out for the Miss South Carolina World beauty p...
DONNA RICE

'Little Night' has layers of meaning. There's something enchanted about night. All those...
LUANNE RICE

Oh Lestat, you deserved everything that's ever happened to you. You better not die. You might actual...
ANNE RICE

The judges were very conscious of the role that awards such as Apex play in raising professional com...
ANDY RICE

I like our depth in the pitching department. We need to find a couple more offensive players. Defens...
ANDY RICE

I think anybody in America needs to do whatever they can. A lot of people lost everything they own.
ANDY RICE

It's a lot easier and everything is in one place.
ANDY RICE

I think all states really need to examine what they're doing and with what types of offenses,
ANN RICE

It is surprising and it is dismaying when any of this happens regardless if its one or whatever time...
ANN RICE

What a rare opportunity you have given the members of this committee, ... We will do our best to ful...
ANN RICE

Right now the critical shortage areas, and last year, are in special education. That's our biggest -...
ANN RICE

Whenever you hire anyone whose going to have access to children, you need to know what their crimina...
ANN RICE

It's one of our top priorities for the coming year and probably many years after that.
ANN RICE

I'm really looking forward to the Hall of Fame ceremonies. It's going to be unbelievable - j...
JERRY RICE

And books, they offer one hope -- that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and f...
ANNE RICE

Our purpose is to help the disabled lead a productive life.
AMY RICE

We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

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We've been a country that's been fortunate to be protected by two oceans, to not have serious attacks on our territory for most of our history. And we were unfortunately reminded in a very devastating way of our vulnerability.

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