Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?
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By March '87 we're down to seven thousand, by the end of the year we're down to twelve hundred. The whole bottom just fell out of the market. It was bad for me because I was in Australia at the time.
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Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.
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More often than not, the most effective leaders have been shaped by teaching successfully in high needs classrooms. Because of their experience, they know that it is possible for low-income children to achieve on an absolute scale and understand what we need to do to allow them to fulfill their potential.
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I was always under the impression that acting is an innate gift. One of the first things I heard them say at Koothu-P-Pattarai was that actors should realise the art of acting through their training.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I'm trying to equalise the world to say there is no high and low.
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Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
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In real life, coincidences happen all the time. In novels, they are leapt upon with fury.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.
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We are what we believe we are.
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For me personally, the technology that has taken the most unexpected turn in my lifetime is what I refer to as 'the device formerly known as the cell phone.' I still remember many predictions that by 2000 there would only be about a million cell phone users. Boy, were they ever wrong!
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I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
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I really enjoyed being able to be one of the people who weighed in on the events. As hard as it is to do that every day, because it is exhausting, it really is fun to do that, especially when you feel like you really did something well, and it really hit.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending with endings that maybe point in more than one direction, and that seems important to me because it seems important to me that after you've invested twenty or thirty hours of your imaginative life into this narrative that you have some stake in how it ends.
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If you look around, complacency is the great disease of your autumn years, and I work hard to prevent that.
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You don't go home and talk about the great tennis courts that you played, but you do talk about the golf courses you played.
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I don't play accurately — any one can play accurately — but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life.
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We had hoped to celebrate the Israeli democracy today in a different atmosphere, and now we are again forced to cope with murderous terror. The government of Israel will do what must be done in order to deal with the terrorists and those who dispatch them.
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Suppose you had a cross burning in a play or a movie... Would that be intimidating?
