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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. "
Sonia Sotomayor
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" We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought. "
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" I want to state upfront, unequivocally and without doubt: I do not believe that any racial, ethnic or gender group has an advantage in sound judging. I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge, regardless of their background or life experiences. "
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" Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do. "
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" I don't prejudge. "
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" The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law. "
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" I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in the south Bronx. My test scores were not comparable to my colleagues at Princeton and Yale. Not so far off so that I wasn't able to succeed at those institutions. "
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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "
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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. "
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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'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. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run. "
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" When I'm concentrating, I can be fixed in place for hours. In fact, there was a joke in my office that everybody would come and chat outside my door because they knew - no matter how loud they talked - if I was concentrating, it would not disturb me at all. "
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" I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. "
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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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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "
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" I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" 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. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" 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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" 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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" My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. "
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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. "
Sonia Sotomayor
" 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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" Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. "
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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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" The first case I sat on... was Citizens United. Talk about being thrown in. Needless to say, if I was scared before, I was terrified. "
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