Ruth Bader Ginsburg Quotes

When I graduated from law school in 1959, there wasn't a single woman on any federal bench. It wouldn't be a realistic ambition for a woman to want to become a federal judge. It wasn't realistic until Jimmy Carter became our president.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: judge
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 15, 1933

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I'm a huge reader... I'm a big book nerd. I go through, like, two books a week.

Jodie Sweetin

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I never want to sort of put all the cards on the table all at once, because that's somehow there's always a journey to go on. There's always something to be revealed, in my mind, about characters.

Jeremy Northam

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Growing up, I didn't get the talk of 'Make sure boys take you on a date and treat you right.' So I was the girl who wasn't dating and would just text. I dated these guys who didn't have jobs, and I would always be paying. At one point, I remember looking in the mirror and thinking, 'You're too pretty and cool to be treated like this.'

Meghan Trainor

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America's greatest strength has always been its hopeful vision of human progress.

John McCain

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America is beyond power; it acts as in a dream, as a face of God. Wherever America is, there is freedom, and wherever America is not, madness rules with chains, darkness strangles millions. Beneath her patient bombers, paradise is possible.

John Updike

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There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most - many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.

John Perkins

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David Ben-Gurion was a mythic figure, the founding father of Israel and a modern-day prophet, but he was also a real man who stormed through history on human legs. It was my great privilege to know him and work with him for many years.

Shimon Peres

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It's about storytelling. The story is told through images. So with the cast, I had to make sure that the emotions were readable without sound... I know some great actors, if you turn off the sound, you don't really know what they're saying.

Michel Hazanavicius

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Sometimes in life, we try to do our very best to help others, and in the process, it brings some anguish to us. But we can't ever let that stop us. We can't ever be stopped from helping others and allowing them to have some sense of happiness and joy in their life.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

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I love and respect all religions and philosophies. I see how they get formed, how they grow up, and how powerful they are. But for me to believe in a specific god - no. Because what I believe is that the infinite, the absolute, is a living being and the only one living being that really exists.

Don Miguel Ruiz

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If you cast the right actor, it not only compliments your work, it elevates your work.

Del Shores

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In 'Seven Years In Tibet,' I played a Buddhist. But I'm not religious at all, really.

David Thewlis

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