Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
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My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer and living there. It is home for me.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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Being on Broadway and getting a Tony nomination - this has been an incredible ride, from rather humble beginnings.
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I'd like to have kids and a wife, and you know, drop them off at school and like, do normal things rather that constantly being on tour. Because I'm young now and I haven't really got a social life. This is all I do. It's the best job in the world, but I'll get to the point where there's more to life than work.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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As a result, the highly civilized man can endure incomparably more than the savage, whether of moral or physical strain. Being better able to control himself under all circumstances, he has a great advantage over the savage.
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Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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I read recently that the problem with stereotypes isn't that they are inaccurate, but that they're incomplete. And this captures perfectly what I think about contemporary African literature. The problem isn't that it's inaccurate, it's that it's incomplete.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
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Death, only, renders hope futile.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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In general, states do not count on pledges of 'no more war' from their neighbors. Israel's army never counted on it from Egypt, for example.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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God spoke to me and called me to His Service. What form this service was to take the voice did not say.
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Snoring keeps the monsters away.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
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For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.
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The government now has license to transfer property from those with fewer resources to those with more. The Founders cannot have intended this perverse result.
