Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
SONIA SOTOMAYORAlthough I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
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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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Until we reach equality in education, we can’t reach equality in the larger society.
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You can’t dream unless you know what the possibilities are.
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Don’t mistake politeness for lack of strength.
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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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Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
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Diabetes taught me discipline.
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The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn’t have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.
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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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Experience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire.
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In every position that I’ve been in, there have been naysayers who don’t believe I’m qualified or who don’t believe I can do the work. And I feel a special responsibility to prove them wrong.
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I think that even someone who got into an institution through affirmative action could prove they were qualified by what they accomplished there.
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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 from it what you can.
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My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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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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I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
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You make your life choices understanding that you might and do have to work harder to prove yourself.
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Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States. Many people have no idea what the relationship is between Puerto Rico and the United States. And certainly, I have been asked if we are citizens.
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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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To me, lawyering is the height of service – and being involved in this profession is a gift.
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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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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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Although I grew up in very modest and challenging circumstances, I consider my life to be immeasurably rich.
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Some people choose not to engage the battle and then don’t seek out that kind of success. And others do.
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The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to speak openly and candidly on the subject of race, and to apply the Constitution with eyes open to the unfortunate effects of centuries of racial discrimination.
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We apply law to facts. We don’t apply feelings to facts.
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