Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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I luckily had a very charming, lovable mom who I think everybody could see bits and pieces of their mom in.
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But we cannot rely on memorials and museums alone. We can tell ourselves we will never forget and we likely won't. But we need to make sure that we teach history to those who never had the opportunity to remember in the first place.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.
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I just consider being one of the luckiest people in the sense that creativity came to me and it flowed.
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For me, certain shots or scenes are keys in the movie.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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I want to be regarded as the best guy in the world, and I want to beat the best guy in the world.
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One of the first acts during the second coming of Steve Jobs as CEO in 1997 was a major board overhaul.
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I knew what I wanted to do in sport from the age of nine.
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Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
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When it comes to meetings and preparing for that, it doesn't matter if it's a meeting with the U.N.; with a large operator, CEO, or chairman; or if I have an internal meeting - in all cases, I know that the energy and the engagement in every discussion is extremely important.
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I am disappointed that Senator Ayotte has voted repeatedly for deep cuts in Pell Grants that would make college more expensive for thousands of New Hampshire students and voted against allowing young people to refinance their student loans.
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What I see with the utility industry is, more and more, we're taking up this belief that our workforce, our leadership ranks, our board should be reflective of the community that we serve.
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Whoever you are, be that person with all your might. Time goes by faster than we thought. It is a thief so quiet. You must let yourself be loved and you must love, parts of you that never loved must open and love. You must announce yourself in all particulars so you can have yourself.
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We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
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What was a problem was the excessive amount of media attention to the appointment of the first woman and everything she did. Everywhere that Sandra went, the press was sure to go. And that got tiresome; it was stressful.
