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Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.
Sonia Sotomayor
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Sonia Sotomayor
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: June 25
Associate Justice Of The Supreme Court Of The United States
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The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
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I got a message from one of my friends in Puerto Rico, who said, 'Sonia, there's nobody working in Puerto Rico - they're all glued to the television'. And I got a similar message from a friend in Spain.
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The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.
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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 have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of 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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Don't be shy about making a teacher of any willing party who knows what he or she is doing.
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I had many reasons for writing memoir but among them was the hope that every Latino child and adult would find something familiar in it.
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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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Outside of the marriage context, can you think of any other rational basis, reason, for a state using sexual orientation as a factor in denying homosexuals benefits or imposing burdens on them? Is there any other rational decision-making that the government could make? Denying them a job, not granting them benefits of some sort, any other decision?
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I was raised in a Bronx public housing project, but studied at two of the nation's finest universities. I did work as an assistant district attorney, prosecuting violent crimes that devastate our communities.
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I had no need to apologize that the look-wider, search-more affirmative action that Princeton and Yale practiced had opened doors for me. That was its purpose: to create the conditions whereby students from disadvantaged backgrounds could be brought to the starting line of a race many were unaware was even being run.
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I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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My hope is that I will take the good from my experiences and extrapolate them further into areas with which I am unfamiliar. I simply do not know exactly what that difference will be in my judging. But I accept there will be some based on my gender and my Latina heritage.
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I got a label because I was Hispanic and a woman and [therefore] I had to be liberal.
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When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.
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I can and do aspire to be greater than the sum total of my experiences, but I accept my limitations. I willingly accept that we who judge must not deny the differences resulting from experience and heritage but attempt, as the Supreme Court suggests, continuously to judge when those opinions, sympathies and prejudices are appropriate.
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I hope in my book [My Beloved World], that the sense that I really feel connected comes through.
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I come to every case with an open mind. Every case is new to me.
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I've never wanted to get adjusted to my income, because I knew I wanted to go back to public service. And in comparison to what my mother earns and how I was raised, it's not modest at all. I have no right to complain.
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