Elena Kagan Quotes
I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I don't believe in endorsing a product that you don't want to endorse.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.
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I'm not afraid of death. What's to fear? Once you're dead, that's it. Nothing. I don't believe in heaven or hell. That's baloney. What matters is the here and now. Yes, I'm 88, and there are things I can't do: I can't run a race or climb Everest. But isn't life magnificent?
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Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.
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I held a conference in Harvard where Americans said they didn't believe in risk. They thought it was just European hysteria. Then the terrorist attacks happened and there was a complete conversion. Suddenly terrorism was the central risk.
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Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.
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Sticking with your vision and what you believe in is so, so important.
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I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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I thought our community should have a deep dialogue to make black America better. I believe if we make black America better, we make all of America better.
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I really believe deep in my soul that we're going to have to step up and face these challenges and be tough and pull together and unify and be creative and be willing to sacrifice.
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I've got to believe I'm the first person to win the Newbery who has written a Harlequin romance!
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When Californians see something we truly believe in, we say so and act accordingly - without evasiveness or equivocation.
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The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work.
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I believe that the Greater Phoenix Area is a terrific sports market; it's a terrific hockey market.
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I love challenges, and I believe that the challenge of quality cinema should not be underestimated as an important part of the Italian cultural offer.
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Women of South Africa are some of the most powerful people on Earth. Change what you believe is possible for yourself.
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The Constitution remains brilliant in its overall design and sound with respect to the Bill of Rights and the separation of powers. But there are numerous archaic provisions that inhibit constructive change and adaptation. These constitutional bits affect the daily life of the republic and every citizen in it.
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I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women.
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I'm doing stand-up comedy. I'm working on a one-woman show about how I don't like my baby. There is a period of time where a baby is born where the next 3 months is harrowing. A lot of people say it's the most wonderful time, but for me it was harrowing.
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Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.
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I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.