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" Each time I see a split infinitive, an inconsistent tense structure or the unnecessary use of the passive voice, I blister. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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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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" 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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" I think it's important to move people beyond just dreaming into doing. They have to be able to see that you are just like them, and you made it. "
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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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" I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. "
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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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" I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate. "
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" Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich. "
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" I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. "
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" I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up. "
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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 listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals. "
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" I hope that as the Senate and American people learn more about me, they will see that I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. "
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" I savor life. When you have anything that threatens life... it prods you into stepping back and really appreciating the value of life and taking from it what you can. "
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" I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. "
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" If the system is broken, my inclination is to fix it rather than to fight it. I have faith in the process of the law, and if it is carried out fairly, I can live with the results, whatever they may be. "
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" I do know one thing about me: I don't measure myself by others' expectations or let others define my worth. "
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" If you're poor, you don't often live near a good school. If it's a competitive public school program, our kids are not prepared to enter those programs. "
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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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" 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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" I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability. "
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" I found in my experiences that it's not that men are consciously discriminating against promoting women, but I do believe as people we have self-images about what's good. "
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" I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain. "
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" A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. "
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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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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "
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