Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes

If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

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• If you can live in Vegas, or visit Vegas, and leave in one piece, still loving it and somehow laughing about it, you should spend at least part of your last night in town doing something that will serve you well no matter where you go next: thank your lucky stars.

  

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• The reason for the sadness of this modern age and the men who live in it is that it looks for the truth in everything and finds it.

  

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• To get away from poverty, you need several things at the same time: school, health, and infrastructure - those are the public investments. And on the other side, you need market opportunities, information, employment, and human rights.

  

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• Rauner needs to tell Illinoisans what essential health benefits he intends to keep covering in Illinois.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
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• Egyptian comedy has a very, very old tradition. Our theater and our movies are just, like, amazing. And Egypt is kind of like the Hollywood of the Middle East. I mean, we had cinema maybe decades before the other Arab countries ever got independence.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.

  

  Kate Moss
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• I think a woman feels ugly when she's got the wrong man at her side.

  

  Irina Shayk
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• Upon graduation, believe it or not, I had no job. I had no interviews. I had no prospects. I had no worries. What I did have, I had passion. I had enormous passion. I had passion for financial markets. I had fallen in love with financial markets.

  

  Gary Cohn
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• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
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• Yet it depends on yours. The two are one. They are a plural, a right and left, a pair, Two parallels that meet if only in

  

  Wallace Stevens

• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

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• My journalistic mission was straightforward: to await the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Nobody knew quite when this would be. But the diplomacy - the meetings in the U.N. security council, the allegations about weapons of mass destruction, the martial language of Tony Blair and George W. Bush - all suggested a war was brewing.

  

  Luke Harding
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• You can (be a middle-aged comic) if you work very hard at it, because comedy is really hard.

  

  Andrew Denton
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• I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.

  

  Mary Leakey
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• 'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

  

  Bret Stephens
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• I like to read dramatic novels and I absolutely love magazines.

  

  Maud Welzen

• While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  

  Dee Dee Myers
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• The way that I'm working now is basically the way I've been working since I was a kid: Find the greatest artist in whatever you do, and rip them off with respect. I think there's a big difference between ripping off with respect and ripping off in disrespect.

  

  M. Ward
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• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
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• You know what, I'd done an interview show when I was like 16 or 17. One of my first jobs. I did interviews for this television show in Toronto.

  

  Keanu Reeves
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• I think the things that are more painful to me are not the intrusion of paparazzi, it's the lack of civility that I find more intimidating and far more painful an experience. It's the lack of critical thinking. It's the endless snarky, mean way we talk about each other, we approach each other. The anonymity of being cruel, the delight in tearing people down. The tabloid era that we find ourselves in is a cultural boneyard, and that is painful to me.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • People
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• If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is.

  

  Sandra Day O'Connor
  • Thinking
  • Difficult
  • Jobs