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All I can say is that with business and the interest of any party before me, I will consider and apply the law as it is written by Congress and informed by precedent.

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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University Teacher
The Bronx
New York City
Sonia Maria Sotomayor
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Without question, so many people, throughout my life, never think of Puerto Rico as part of the United States.
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A surplus of effort could overcome a deficit of confidence.
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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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Remember that no one succeeds alone. Never walk alone in your future paths.
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I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.
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The President [Barack Obama] had suggested that I not watch the news during the confirmation process. I assiduously followed his advice.
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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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I'm a New Yorker, and I jaywalk with the best of them.
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I have come to believe that in order to thrive, a child must have at least one adult in her life who shows her unconditional love, respect, and confidence.
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It's not the heart that compels conclusions in cases, it's the law.
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There are no bystanders in life [...] Our humanity makes us each a part of something greater than ourselves.
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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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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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Reaching a conclusion has to start with what the parties are arguing, but examining in all situations carefully the facts as they prove them or not prove them, the record as they create it, and then making a decision that is limited to what the law says on the facts before the judge.
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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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A role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, Yes, someone like me can do this.
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