Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
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It's like I understand images and some people understand poetry.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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If the 2016 election is any indication, every four years, millions more Americans will continue backing away from their own parties to choose a third party instead.
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Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
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I think comedy is the perfect vehicle for that which is slightly beyond life.
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There is not love where there is no will.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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No organization should be allowed near disaster unless they are willing to cooperate with some level of established leadership.
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I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.
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People love talking about the banality of evil and the fact that ordinary people do bad things. I actually want to stay away from that.
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That's why for Zakk Wylde's Black Label Society the colors are black and white. There are no gray issues. Life is black and it's white. There's no in-between.
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In winter I go skiing on Saturdays and Sundays when the slopes are quieter due to changeover day for tourists, and in summer I hike up into the mountains at sunset, just as the village is settling down to dinner.
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Tradition usually rests upon something which men did know; history is often the manufacture of the mere liar.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.
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It was better for me when I was joined at the court by a second woman. When I was there alone, there was too much media focus on the one woman, and the minute we got another woman, that changed.
