You will make a difference in the world, but not immediately. Your first obligation is to find something you like doing, because if you like doing it, you’ll do it well.
CONDOLEEZZA RICEIf you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
More Condoleezza Rice Quotes
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America’s still a very, very powerful symbol and a very important place of leadership for the world.
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It’s bad policy to speculate on what you’ll do if a plan fails when you’re trying to make a plan work.
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I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn’t have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.
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As secretary of state it’s been an enormous honor to represent this great country that I love so much – I have really seen that our great strengths are in the ability of people to reach their potential here.
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There is nothing better than being in a classroom with really, really brilliant students, and opening up new worlds to them. That’s what I love doing.
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I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.
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If you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.
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I think America is still a bright, shining city on the hill – not because we’re perfect but because we struggle in our imperfections every day.
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We’re not going to negotiate about the terms of terrorism. You don’t negotiate about terrorism. It’s is wrong to engage in terrorism, and there isn’t anything to negotiate.
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We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
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In the United States, we’ve always been held together by the belief that it doesn’t matter where you came from. It matters where you’re going.
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We can’t rely – or no country can rely on just a single personality to carry it forward. And so what the American founding fathers understood was that institutions were built for human imperfection not human perfection.
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NATO is built on security, but it’s also built on values.
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I find it odd that suddenly people believe the United States is this Islamophobic country. I think this is the most tolerant country in the world.
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You might not be able to control your circumstances but you can control your response to your circumstances.
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