Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

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• Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.

  

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• But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.

  

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• I was in Paris, Milan and London from '89 until '91, and I did mostly runway modeling. I know there's so many people out there looking for pictures, but this was way before the age of the Internet, sorry!

  

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• There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.

  

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• The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
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• The revelation of thought takes men out of servitude into freedom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• But while doing that I'd been following a variety of fields in science and technology, including the work in molecular biology, genetic engineering, and so forth.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
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• The minute anyone's getting anxious I say, You must eat and you must sleep. They're the two vital elements for a healthy life.

  

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• My general philosophy of playing bad guys, which I've sort of done, you know, half the time is, you know, very few people who we view as bad guys get out of bed and think, 'What evil, terrible thing am I going to do today?' Most people see their motivations as justified - as, you know, justifying whatever they do.

  

  J. K. Simmons
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• Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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• It is very disappointing to see the Punjabi music scene of today. The lyrical quality has deteriorated; it is only people like Sartaaj and Gurdas Maan Ji who are sticking to their roots.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
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• Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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• Theater is there to search for questions. It doesn't give you instructions.

  

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• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

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• There is enough going on in Olympic year without having to do my own cooking and washing.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• True inward quietness ... is not vacancy, but stability - the steadfastness of a single purpose.

  

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• Happinessis a byproduct of function. Those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

  

  William S. Burroughs
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• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
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• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
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• I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

  

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• Unfortunately civility is hard to codify or legislate, but you know it when you see it. It's possible to disagree without being disagreeable.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Conflict
  • Manners
  • Politeness