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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It's a fascinating job, to come in and be the most interesting person in an episode. Whoever the guest star is, that's the job - to maintain the interest and the focus for that 42 minutes or whatever, and it should be a huge relief to those people that are the leads in the shows.
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Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
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I finally learned to live in the present and focus only on what I want rather than what I don't want.
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Since the bicycle makes little demand on material or energy resources, contributes little to pollution, makes a positive contribution to health and causes little death or injury, it can be regarded as the most benevolent of machines.
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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.
