David Souter Quotes
I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
Quotes to Explore
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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The atmosphere seems to change once the sun goes down and the race fans get to watch a good show.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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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 the other.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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Modern theory is about objects lower than man; even stars, being common things, are lower than man.
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I think what my parents did was perfect. They were strict, concerned about my safety and held me back just a little.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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You have to know what club you are playing for, or you just play for yourself. Every time I put on a Liverpool shirt, I know it is more than just a football game.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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Having a place out of the city is a shortcut toward the mental reset I need.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I think there is a poem out there for everyone, to be an entrance into the poetry and a relationship with it.
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I want to go to Sierra Leone with something - whether it's some sort of contribution to healthcare, or to the entertainment industry. My cousin is a nurse; we are talking about opening a clinic.
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The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.
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Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
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Stress is an important dragon to slay - or at least tame - in your life.
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My whole life is a dark room. One big dark room.
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I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
