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"I think the important thing about my appointment is not that I will decide cases as a woman, but that I am a woman who will get to decide cases."
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"The new ruler must determine all the injuries that he will need to inflict. He must inflict them once and for all."
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"I will watch everything that Cary Grant did, or Kubrick made or Bergman."
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"It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning."
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"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
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"The ear disapproves but tolerates certain musical pieces; transfer them into the domain of our nose, and we will be forced to flee."
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"I think you grow through your experiences; you get better as you grow and I'm not nearly where I think I'm going to be eventually where I inspire to be and hopefully the opportunities will continue to come."
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"Enrolling in the Medicare Prescription Drug Program will be a great savings for most senior citizens."
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"You will go most safely in the middle."
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"Prejudices and preferences exist and will continue to. When you learn how to market yourself, you become less of a victim."
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"Cigarettes, I won't do cigarettes, nicotine will kill ya."
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"If I stumbled badly in doing the job, I think it would have made life more difficult for women, and that was a great concern of mine and still is."
Life
"Justice Ginsburg is a very competent justice, and it is a joy to have her on the court, but particularly for me it is a pleasure to have a second woman on the court."
Court
"Occasionally we have to interpret an international treaty - one, perhaps, affecting airlines and liability for injury to passengers or damage to goods. Then, of course, we have to look to the precedents of other member nations in resolving issues."
Injury
"When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn't do it."
Court
"The courts of this country should not be the places where resolution of disputes begins. They should be the places where the disputes end after alternative methods of resolving disputes have been considered and tried."
Country
"The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming."
Court
"My sense is that jurists from other nations around the world understand that our court occupies a very special place in the American system, and that the court is rather well regarded in comparison, perhaps, to their own."
American
"There was no hostility at the court when I arrived."
Court
"Yes, I will bring the understanding of a woman to the Court, but I doubt that alone will affect my decisions."
Court
"My concern was whether I could do the job of a justice well enough to convince the nation that my appointment was the right move."
Concern
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