I do know one thing about me: I don’t measure myself by others’ expectations or let others define my worth.
SONIA SOTOMAYORExperience 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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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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The Latina in me is an ember that blazes forever.
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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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I have never, ever focused on the negative of things. I always look at the positive.
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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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Although wisdom is built on life experiences, the mere accumulation of years guarantees nothing.
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My judicial philosophy is fidelity to the law.
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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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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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Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see.
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I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can’t imagine someone else’s point of view.
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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 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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As members of the judiciary tasked with intervening to carry out the guarantee of equal protection, we ought not sit back and wish away, rather than confront, the racial inequality that exists in our society.
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The challenges I have faced – among them material poverty, chronic illness, and being raised by a single mother – are not uncommon, but neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements.
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