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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 important to them.

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.
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Better Control Discipline Feeling Life Myself Sick Teaching Training
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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The President Barack Obama had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
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Advice Myself President Process
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the world and the universe. It, to me, was a passport out of my childhood and it remains a way – through the power of words – to change the world.
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Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it’s a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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Business Gift Government Help Law Person Professional Representation Service Try
I don’t have a professional aspiration. But I do have a personal one: I want to continue growing as a person. I want to reach out more to people, learn more from them. Ultimately, I would like to be a great justice that people remember with respect and fondness.
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I came to accept during my freshman year that many of the gaps in my knowledge and understanding were simply limits of class and cultural background, not lack of aptitude or application as I’d feared.
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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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Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences. Today is one of those experiences.
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A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, “Yes, someone like me can do this.”
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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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Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.
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We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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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 important to them.

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