The President Barack Obama had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
SONIA SOTOMAYORIf 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.
More Sonia Sotomayor Quotes
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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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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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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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Success is its own reward, but failure is a great teacher too, and not to be feared.
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I’ve spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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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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A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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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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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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I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.
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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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The dynamism of any diverse community depends not only on the diversity itself but on promoting a sense of belonging among those who formerly would have been considered and felt themselves outsiders.
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We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.
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I was a keen observer and listener. I picked up on clues. I figured things out logically, and I enjoyed puzzles. I loved the clear, focused feeling that came when I concentrated on solving a problem and everything else faded out.
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Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.
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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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Diabetes taught me discipline.
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Pretending to be a princess is fun, but it is definitely not a career.
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I do believe that every person has an equal opportunity to be a good and wise judge regardless of their background or life experiences.
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We have to look and ensure that we’re paying attention to what we’re doing, so that we don’t reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.
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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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Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
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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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I don’t believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it.
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There are no bystanders in this life.
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