Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.
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The high-grossing films are not all that interesting to me, I have to say. It's not stuff I would want to be in. Yes, you would want the big paycheck, but that's never really been my concern.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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It is better that some should be unhappy rather than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I could talk for ages about how women are amazing, but essentially we shouldn't be manipulated by the media's expectations of our bodies. I'd recommend every woman to read 'Women Who Run with the Wolves' - it's about being in touch with your more wild, free and powerful side.
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The key to fashion is, you don't want to look like you're trying. You've gotta be natural.
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Dead men tell no tales.
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Food is available, but it cannot be shipped into an area, so the people in that area suffer the consequences.
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There is nothing better than the encouragement of a good friend.
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No war is inevitable until it breaks out.
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We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.
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I am not to be defined. I am all things. I am the queen of everything. Every woman is.
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Institutional Buddhism has been conspicuously ready to accept or ignore the inequalities and tyrannies of whatever political system it found itself under. This can be death to Buddhism, because it is death to any meaningful function of compassion.
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Of all my false identities, the strategies in my campaign to be accepted, being a sworn Republican is the hardest to explain. In my later political life, I can only be described as a Kennedy Democrat, eager to pursue equitable treatment for the least fortunate.
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An artist has to look at the future, to see what we can do better.
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The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.
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The Constitution does not protect the sovereignty of States for the benefit of the States or state governments as abstract political entities, or even for the benefit of the public officials governing the States. To the contrary, the Constitution divides authority between federal and state governments for the protection of individuals.
