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" I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out. "

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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 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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" It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law. "

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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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" I'm young at heart. I'm young in spirit, and I'm still adventurous. "

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" The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever. "

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" I barely saw my mother, and the mom I saw was often angry and unhappy. The mother I grew up with is not the mother I know now. It's not the mother she became after my father died, and that's been the greatest prize of my life. "

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" There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects. "

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" 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. "

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" With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that. "

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" When you have strong views about how to approach thinking about the law, then that view is going to lead to certain results in certain situations. And so people seem to think this predictability is based on some kind of partisan political view. But it's not. "

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" 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. "

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" Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy. "

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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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" A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time. "

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" We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice. "

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" My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law. "

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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 have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive. "

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" I firmly believe in the rule of law as the foundation for all of our basic rights. "

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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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" I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" I stand on the shoulders of countless people, yet there is one extraordinary person who is my life aspiration. That person is my mother, Celina Sotomayor. "

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" Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences, our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. "

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" The worst thing you want is a willy-nilly judge who is swayed by the political whims of the era or the time. What you want is a judge who is thinking about what he or she is doing and is thinking about it in a principled way. "

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