The best Quotes by Sonia Sotomayor

When everyone at school is speaking one language, and a lot of your classmates' parents also speak it, and you go home and see that your community is different -there is a sense of shame attached to that. It really takes growing up to treasure the specialness of being different.

You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will - undoubtedly - fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I'm just not going to let this get me down.

There are uses to adversity, and they don't reveal themselves until tested. Whether it's serious illness, financial hardship, or the simple constraint of parents who speak limited English, difficulty can tap unexpected strengths.

I am an ordinary person who has been blessed with extraordinary opportunities and experiences.

We educated, privileged lawyers have a professional and moral duty to represent the underrepresented in our society, to ensure that justice exists for all, both legal and economic justice.

Lawyer

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For the world has changed, and we must change with it.

Barack Obama

Change

When you fall, the real test is whether you can ignore the naysayers, pick yourself up and come back stronger.

Barack Obama - January 28, 2013 - Miami Heat visit the White House

Beginning

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Barack Obama

Change Motivation

Look at Berlin, where Germans and Americans learned to work together and trust each other less than three years after facing each other on the field of battle.

Barack Obama

Germany Berlin

To Michelle - my love and life's partner and Malia and Sasha - whose dazzling light makes everything brighter.

Barack Obama - A Promised Land

Michelle Obama Book Dedications & Preambles

These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.

Barack Obama - White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013

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As tragic as these past few weeks have been, they offer an opportunity for us to all work together to tackle them, to take them on, to change America and make it live up to its highest ideals.

Barack Obama - June 2020

Death of George Floyd

More than anything, this pandemic has fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they're doing.

Barack Obama - May 2020

Coronavirus

I'm so proud to endorse Joe Biden for President of the United States.

Barack Obama - April 2020

Joe Biden US Elections

Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

Barack Obama

Money

So congratulations, again, to the Miami Heat. And now we are going to take a picture that makes me look very short.

Barack Obama - January 28, 2013 - Miami Heat visit the White House

Funny Politician Quotes Miami Heat

People of the world - look at Berlin, where a wall came down, a continent came together, and history proved that there is no challenge too great for a world that stands as one.

Barack Obama

History 2008 German Unity Berlin

What makes you a man is not the ability to have a child - it's the courage to raise one.

Barack Obama

Children & Childhood Courage Men

Know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.

Barack Obama (Inauguration Speech 2009)

Human Rights 2009

Congrats to the Kansas City Chiefs, MVP Patrick Mahomes, Coach Reid, Travis Kelce, Chris Jones, Mecole Hardman, and the rest of the champs for another Lombardi Trophy. Grace under pressure.

Barack Obama - February 2024, about the Chiefs' Super Bowl Win

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"We have fewer ships than we had in 1916"? Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonetts. We have these things called aircraft carriers, where planes land on them.

Barack Obama

Weapons

I grew up in Hawaii. My love of the natural world began here.

Barack Obama in Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Hawaii

Coming back - even if I have to wear a tie, which I very rarely do these days - gives me a chance to visit with some of the incredible people who serve the White House.

Barack Obama - April 2022

Congratulations to my friends, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris - our next President and Vice President of the United States.

Barack Obama - November 2020

Joe Biden Kamala Harris US Elections

I never thought Donald Trump would embrace my vision or continue my policies but I did hope for the sake of the country that he might show some interest in taking the job seriously, but it hasn’t happened.

Barack Obama - October 2020, Speech in Philadelphia

Donald Trump

I believe that Israel is rooted not just in history and tradition, but also in a simple and profound idea - the idea that people deserve to be free in a land of their own.

Barack Obama - March 2013

Israel

There are certain sports figures who become a larger cultural force. Michael Jordan and the Bulls changed the culture.

Barack Obama in The Last Dance - Episode 10

Michael Jordan Chicago Bulls

No wonder the city never sleeps, it's too busy trying to get laid.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 1 Episode 11

Sex New York City

There are eight million people in this city. And those teeming masses exist for the sole purpose of lifting the few exceptional people onto their shoulders.

Grüner Kobold in Spider-Man

Fame New York City

If I can make it there
I'll make it anywhere
It's up to you
New York, New York

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

Manhattan, for millions of our forefathers, the gateway to hope, opportunity and happiness beyond their wildest dreams. Today, that hope is still alive, it's called "The First Date". On Saturday nights, every restaurant in Lower Manhattan resembles its own little Ellis Island.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 3

New York City Manhatten

I want to wake up in that city
That doesn't sleep
And find I'm king of the hill
Top of the heap

Frank Sinatra - New York, New York

New York City

In a city that moves so fast, you get the Sunday paper on Saturday - how did any of us know how much time we had left?

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 2 Episode 5

New York City

We are New Yorkers. Proud citizens of the greatest city on earth. Thinking big isn't new to us. It is the very foundation of who we are.

Bill de Blasio

New York City

Regardless of our differences, this was still New York. A melting pot crammed onto an island, then pushed into a subway car with a rat eating pizza. You're not left or right. You're a New f*cking Yorker and we're in this together.

Jordan Klepper in The Daily Show - Debates Anti-Vax Mandate Protesters in NYC

New York City

Do you know how bad that coffee has to be to to be considered a health risk in New York? This is the same city where pizza gets delivered by a rat!

Ronny Chieng in The Daily Show

New York City

I don't wanna f*ck it up because one of us didn't prepare for the slim possibility of New York City traffic!

Michael Lawson in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

I remember Hell's Kitchen when you couldn't walk west of Ninth Avenue without getting knifed. Now it's Chelsea with better gays.

Stanley James in Uncoupled - Season 1 Episode 1

New York City

Lisa: "What was your booth for again?"
Tom: "It was free legal advice. I'm a lawyer."
Lisa: "So you are a creep."

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Lawyer

Those who understand the rules can delineate boundaries, and identify gray areas.

Alhaitham in Genshin Impact

Lawyer Rules

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons, I've got em 'cause everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up.

Danny DeVito

Lawyer Nuclear Weapons

How does President Obama like his coffee? Like himself? Weak?

Zach Galifianakis in Between Two Ferns

Barack Obama

Zach Galifianakis: "You have a hit pop song called 'Starving'."
Hailee Steinfeld: "Yes I do. Let me guess, you can't relate?"

Hailee Steinfeld in Between Two Ferns

Zach Galifianakis: "You played in a movie called The Hunger Games."
Jennifer Lawrence: "Yeah. Isn't that your life story?"
Zach Galifianakis: "You shouldn't say that. That's off-putting."
Jennifer Lawrence: "You should be off-pudding. Because you're fat."

Jennifer Lawrence in Between Two Ferns

The Hunger Games Fat People

We went from a shitty team to one of the all-time best dynasties. All you needed was one little match to start that whole fire.

Michael Jordan in The Last Dance - Episode 10

Chicago Bulls

It's a great run, we'd had a wonderful time. Good Team. Time to go.

Phil Jackson in The Last Dance - Episode 10

Walking & Going

Tex Winter: "Are your shoes okay? I don't want you sliding all over the damn place out there."
Michael Jordan: "I'mma slide a ring on your hand tonight, Tex. That's all you need to know."

Michael Jordan in The Last Dance - Episode 10

The natural world can continue to surprise us as long as we give it space to thrive.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Conservation & Environment Protection

What began as a common desire to secure wilderness for people to enjoy, has become a worldwide movement to preserve these areas for future generations. They're a place to escape the burdens of everyday life and an inspiration for our children. They're a haven for endangered species and a hotbed for scientific research.

Our Great National Parks - Season 1 Episode 1

Nature & Environment

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