Sandra Day O'Connor Quotes
My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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I always tell people I want to see the world through His eyes, and I want people to see Him in me.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.
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New York has an amazing history of farming and fishing that goes right back to the Pilgrim Fathers. At its core are the four seasons, which are distinct, well-established and similar to those in Lyon, where my family lives: when it's snowing in New York, a week later it will be snowing there.
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Kids have a weird honesty, especially in their reaction to things where a lot of older people who have matured have lost that.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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People appreciate and follow the person who can persuade them properly. Make that person you.
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To open yourself up and open your heart, it's a scary thing in life, let alone a movie.
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Everything is discursive opinion instead of direct experience.
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It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
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I felt totally released from the need to make it as an actress. I had experienced complete fulfillment in something that had nothing to do with me being in the spotlight.
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Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.
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'Love Story' is actually about a guy that I almost dated. But when I introduced him to my family and my friends, they all said they didn't like him. All of them!
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As an Indian, I would like to back my government.
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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
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It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don't cause spills. They are technologically very advanced.
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There is a garbage culture out there, where we pour garbage on people. Then the pollsters run around and take a poll and say, do you smell anything?
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It's interesting how some songs really lend themselves to performance in a big public venue and performance by a band and so on, and so they're even more successful in that context than they were on the record.
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I eat healthy and don't go by a diet chart. The breakfast is usually heavy, complemented with short frequent meals. My dinner is high on proteins and low on carbohydrates.
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In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art -- when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant -- is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.
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My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move.
