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You Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor
- 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…
- Oh my God, I don't think you can say anyone looks forward to controversy.
- When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
- You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting…
- I think that the day a justice forgets that each decision comes at a cost to someone, then I think you start losing your humanity.
- A career is something that you train for and prepare for and plan on doing for a long time.
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