Justice Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

#1. A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.

Grenville Kleiser

#2. Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

Saint John Chrysostom

#3. 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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#4. We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say, 'Every single one of them wasn't just the best Latino for the job, but the best person for the job.'

Charlie Gonzalez

#5. Sometimes it gets boring. No justice is supposed to say that. But, you know, there's drudgery in every job you're going to do.

Sonia Sotomayor

#6. Making pictures, for an actress, is like betting, for a gambler. Each time you make a picture you try to analyze why you won or lost.

Hedy Lamarr

#7. To have a romance, you have to have time. I'm a justice. I've written a book. The guy's gonna have to wait until I'm a little bit freer.

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#8. 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.

Sonia Sotomayor

#9. Drugs is like getting up and having a cup of tea in the morning.

Noel Gallagher

#10. I remember being a bathtub singer. You know, the type that sings and everybody's like, 'Shut up.'

Sean Paul

#11. And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.

William Makepeace Thackeray

#12. It is our responsibility to explain to the public how an often unpredictable system of justice is one that serves a productive, civilized, but always evolving, society.

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#13. 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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#14. My job as a prosecutor is to do justice. And justice is served when a guilty man is convicted and an innocent man is not.

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#15. I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

Suzanne Finnamore

#16. The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

Robert A. Caro

#17. 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.

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#18. Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way ... like people in a Buddhist monastery ... But eccentricity may also connect with the irrational.

John Muir

#19. There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

Tony Blair

#20. 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 legal questions of the country, and sometimes the world. And in doing so, you make a difference in people's lives.

Sonia Sotomayor