Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
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I still study dance, and it's definitely something I want to incorporate in the future. It's always been my first love.
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Quite honestly, if I were doing work related to a living being or historical being where there was visual or audio recordings available, I would find that extremely difficult because I don't know how you would avoid the process of mimicry. And mimicry, to me at any rate, is a very dull prospect.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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No good work is ever done while the heart is hot and anxious and fretted.
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When you become a sannyasin, I initiate you into freedom, and into nothing else... I am destroying your ideologies, creeds, cults, dogmas, and I am not replacing them with anything else.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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The trouble with the artists this year is they are all obsessed with Twitter and headlines. It feels like they are all getting a bit above themselves.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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I am the best. There is nobody better than me.
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I am offered work all the time but not for TV series.
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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet.
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No, I don't believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
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Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.
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I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.
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Lean on principles, one day they'll end up giving way.
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In my childhood, I had a religious assistant who always told me, if you can really laugh with full abandonment, it's very good for your health.
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Understanding is by the flame of the passions never enlightened, but dazzled.
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It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
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The Constitution was framed fundamentally as a bulwark against governmental power, and preventing the arbitrary administration of punishment is a basic ideal of any society that purports to be governed by the rule of law.
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The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.
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Passion is the fuel that will keep us joyfully fulfilling our purpose.
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I tried to decide each case based on the law and the Constitution.
