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" I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them. "

Sonia Sotomayor

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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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" An alcoholic father, poverty, my own juvenile diabetes, the limited English my parents spoke - although my mother has become completely bilingual since. All these things intrude on what most people think of as happiness. "

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

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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 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. "

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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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" 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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" 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 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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" I don't prejudge. "

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" No matter how liberal I am, I'm still outraged by crimes of violence. Regardless of whether I can sympathize with the causes that lead these individuals to do these crimes, the effects are outrageous. "

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

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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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" 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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" Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value. "

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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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" Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society. "

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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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" What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession, then your image of what a good lawyer is a male image. "

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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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" You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action. "

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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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" Since I have difficulty defining merit and what merit alone means - and in any context, whether it's judicial or otherwise - I accept that different experiences in and of itself, bring merit to the system. "

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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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" 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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" 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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" I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government. "

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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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" I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life. "

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