Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Beyond this day, no thinking person could fail to see what would happen.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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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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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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Golfers don't scream. Golfers just adjust the pleats in their pants and go from there. That's about as antagonistic as we get.
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If you're doing the same job every day, there's room for error.
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When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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The most important thing about skating is that it teaches you to do the things you should do before you do the things you want to do.
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As athletes, most of the time we deal with fans cussing at us, saying how much we suck.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
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Living with my grandmother in Bath, I sort of thought I was living in the 19th century. My grandmother was someone who, in a way, was rather defiantly trying to live a pre-World War I existence.
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For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
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There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about.
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Two things I really wanted to be: a stand-up comic or a New York Yankee - or a really funny New York Yankee.
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I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.
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If you asked me why I went to jail, the easiest explanation would be to say, 'Because I'm black.'
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If things happen it's because God has prepared me. God has great things for us. If it's God's will that I be there, there I will be.
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I don't know how a judge can concentrate on being fair and impartial when he or she is faced with possible jail time for making a decision that others deem incorrect.
