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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My nose was part of my heritage, and if I had talent to sing and to act, why wasn't that enough?
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A woman whose life is involved in the righteous rearing of her children has a better chance of keeping up her spirits than the woman whose total concern is centered in her own personal problems.
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If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
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Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.
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For me at this time in my life I recognize that everything is about moving closer to that which is God. And without a full, spiritual center - and I am not talking about religion, I am talking about without understanding the fullness from which you've come you can't really fulfill your supreme moment of destiny.
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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.
