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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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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I'm not really massively into going out. I'm much more of a hibernator. It's nice to have people come to your house or go to someone's house, I think.
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We face a brutal enemy who will kill the innocent for one purpose and that is to gain control of the Middle East and to use the leverage of oil to bring down the West, and to attack us again.
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I think the good old British democracy should keep scrutinising and pressing to get the truth out.
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Great actors can transform, but sometimes there's just this person who speaks right to the role. When they walk in the room, you know they're that character. That is something you can't teach an actor; that's something that's luck and chance.
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When you build characters from the outside in, they become, oftentimes they become like 'Saturday Night Live' characters or they become like caricatures of the character.
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We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?
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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.
