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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.

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
Judge
Lawyer
Politician
University Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
Justice Sotomayor
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Diabetes taught me discipline.
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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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When you come from a background like mine, where you're entering worlds that are so different than your own, you have to be afraid.
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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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When you marry young, you run the risk that you'll grow in different directions.
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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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There are drones flying over the air randomly that are recording everything that's happening on what we consider our private property. That type of technology has to stimulate us to think about what is it that we cherish in privacy, and how far we want to protect it and from whom.
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My diabetes is such a central part of my life... it did teach me discipline... it also taught me about moderation... I've trained myself to be super-vigilant... because I feel better when I am in control.
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The task of a judge is not to make the law - it is to apply the law.
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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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If I go home, get a gun, come back and shoot you, that may not be legal under New York law because you would have alternative ways to defend.
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I am a very spiritual person. Maybe not traditionally religious in terms of Sunday Mass every week, that sort of thing.
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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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All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
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This wealth of experiences, personal and professional, have helped me appreciate the variety of perspectives that present themselves in every case that I hear.
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