Sonia Sotomayor Quotes

The truth is that since childhood I had cultivated an existential independence. It came from perceiving the adults around me as unreliable, and without it I felt I wouldn't have survived. I cared deeply for everyone in my family, but in the end I depended on myself.

Sonia Sotomayor

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 25, 1954

Topics

FamilyTruthMyselfChildhoodMe

New Jersey is the most poetic state: close enough to New York to be urban and cosmopolitan, far enough to be desirous and unsure; densely populated, but full of farms and woods, with the most deer of any state.

Robert Pinsky

New YorkWoodsEnoughNewDeerFar

Much of what candidates have to do is raise money and appeal to constituencies or interest groups that can provide that money.

Robert Scheer

MoneyInterestRaiseMuchProvide

I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.

Robert Ludlum

ConflictBattleAlwaysOverExtreme

I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!

Stephanie Sigman

TimeBaseballMeActingYoungUp

People fight, they get angry, they do drugs, and they do crazy things.

Steven Adler

FightAngryPeopleCrazyThingsGet

I played golf all over Detroit.

Smokey Robinson

GolfDetroitOverPlayed

Painting is much more than therapy to me its a way of life.

Tony Curtis

LifeMePaintingTherapyWayMore

Here's the problem: the so-called 'millionaire surtax' is a permanent tax to pay for a temporary benefit.

Rodney Frelinghuysen

ProblemTaxPayPermanentTemporary

I have to write the songs before I become too enamored with my own melodies.

Mike Stoller

My OwnBecomeWriteOwnSongsToo

I don't get upset over things I can't control, because if I can't control them, there's no use getting upset. And I don't get upset over things I can control, because if I can control them, what's the use in getting upset?

Mickey Rivers

ControlI CanUpsetOverThingsGet

We're blessed to be at a level in my career where I can afford to take out a bus of my own and bring my whole family with me, so that's great, too. The boys are out with us all the time, and it's just great to be able to turn around onstage and see my wife back there behind me.

Josh Turner

FamilyGreatTimeWifeMeBlessed

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not.

David Twohy

BudgetI CanUnderstandOutVisual

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