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" I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality. "

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" I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.' "

" I think the fundamentals of America are strong. "

" I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up. "

" What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference. "

" I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success. "

" I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me. "

" I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career. "

" Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior. "

" I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am. "

" You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example. "

" I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down. "

" I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate. "

" I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing. "

Do The Right Thing

" People are supposed to be responsible. "

" Uh' is not an answer. "

" I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working. "

" I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.' "

" Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children. "

" When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it. "

" People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions. "

" I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck. "

" TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye. "

" I just think I'm direct. "

" To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument. "

" While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort. "

" People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true. "

" I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing. "