Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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When your conscience says law is immoral, don't follow it.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
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Identify your niche and dominate it. And when I say dominate, I just mean work harder than anyone else could possibly work at it.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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I don't like to pretend I was guided in any way by the supernatural world, but the more you talk about that, the easier it is to dismiss those notions.
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
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The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Unfunny people should be locked up, the key tossed into a smelter.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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Math is one of my favorite subjects.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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If you're cast on 'The Vampire Diaries,' the likelihood of you dying is very good.
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The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.
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God is the shortest distance from zero to infinity.
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The last thing in the world I should have done was go into the theater because was inordinately shy as a young man. I couldn't open my mouth. At a party, I was the one stuck up against the wall. I was embarrassed about talking. I felt that I couldn't talk well.
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There is no such thing as success in a bad business.
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After I had my son, Max, I knew I wanted to get involved in causes that help children.
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My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
