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" Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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" Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. "
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" It is very important when you judge to recognize that you have to stay impartial. That's what the nature of my job is. I have to unhook myself from my emotional responses and try to stay within my unemotional, objective persona. "
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" We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts. "
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" If your child marches to a different beat, a different drummer, you might just have to go along with that music. Help them achieve what's important to them. "
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" The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself. "
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" So many people grew up with challenges, as I did. There weren't always happy things happening to me or around me. But when you look at the core of goodness within yourself - at the optimism and hope - you realize it comes from the environment you grew up in. "
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" In examining witnesses, I learned to ask general questions so as to elicit details with powerful sensory associations: the colors, the sounds, the smells that lodge an image in the mind and put the listener in the burning house. "
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" Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge. "
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" My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control. "
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" Diabetes taught me discipline. "
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" To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer. "
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" If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive lesson from it. In being candid, I have to own up to my own failures, both in my marriage and in my work environment. "
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" Sometimes, idealistic people are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people. "
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" My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage. "
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" Being a justice. If you love law the way I do... you're given the job of a lifetime... you're permitted to address the most important legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives. "
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" It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shaped us in ways that we might not understand. "
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" The schools that suffer are the schools in, in poor neighborhoods. They are the neighborhoods with the greatest need, with the parents struggling to work and to make ends meet. They don't have enough resources to give, they don't have enough resources to pay more, and these are the neighborhoods that go first. "
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" I wouldn't approach the issue of judging in the way the president does. Judges can't rely on what's in their heart. They don't determine the law. Congress makes the law. The job of a judge is to apply the law. "
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" When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid. "
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" You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down. "
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" I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. "
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" I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences. "
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" I do think there is a value in the services of judges for long periods of time. "
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" I honestly felt no envy or resentment, only astonishment at how much of a world there was out there and how much of it others already knew. The agenda for self-cultivation that had been set for my classmates by their teachers and parents was something I'd have to develop for myself. "
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" I don't prejudge issues. I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me. "
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" It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society. "
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" I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. "
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" I have never had to face anything that could overwhelm the native optimism and stubborn perseverance I was blessed with. "
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