Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
Court is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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I love to sit and watch people. I love to sit and listen to people.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I miss baseball.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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For nine years I worked to change what was hairdressing then into a geometric art form with color, perm without setting which had never been done before.
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
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I was never taken to a play or concert or church. Yet I was a show-off, a dreamer, a storyteller.
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The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.
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Education never quite gets the attention it deserves in presidential campaigns, but monster flip-flops surely do.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.
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Men aren't the way they are because they want to drive women crazy; they've been trained to be that way for thousands of years. And that training makes it very difficult for men to be intimate.
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On the day after 9/11, I walking through the smoke and the smells of New York. There were knots of policemen everywhere. As I went past one officer, he called out: "Hi, Magneto." That's an indication of X-Men's extraordinary reach.
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Usually we try to figure out what we think would make us happy, and then try to make those things happen. But happiness isn't circumstance-de pendent. There are people who have every reason in the world to be happy who aren't. There are people with genuine problems who are. The key to happiness is the decision to be happy.
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At the end of the table, the secretary was reading the decision in some case, but in such a mournful and monotonous voice, that the condemned man himself would have fallen asleep while listening to it. The judge, no doubt, would have been the first of all to do so, had he not entered into an engrossing conversation while it was going on.
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Reading Chekhov was just like the angels singing to me.
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Court is an institution that depends on making tough decisions in close cases for reasons that it explains well and that, in the past at least, have proven satisfactory to the public.
