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.


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SANDRA CISNEROS
I was a little press writer when the National Endowment for the Arts came to my rescue and gave me a...
SANDRA CISNEROS
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be...
SANDRA BULLOCK
I love fashion. I love couture. I'm going to erect a shelf in my bedroom with an art light to be...
SANDRA BULLOCK
There are so few women in general who aren't completely threatened and confused by other women&#...
SANDRA BERNHARD
Paparazzi need more flattering lenses.
SANDRA BULLOCK
Raising myself and caring for my brothers and sisters allowed me the benefit of a lot of information...
SANDRA LEE
I know when I'm getting ready to mess up, I'm going to do it full-on.
SANDRA BULLOCK
I've become this sort of icon for the gay community. I don't like the position.
SANDRA BERNHARD
I equate fame towards people who know your work, people who will see your work. But all that stuff, ...
SANDRA OH
The beginning of my career was so brilliant. It wasn't until ten years later that I went, 'O...
SANDRA OH
Getting into television was a total fluke.
SANDRA BULLOCK
Composing means you have a beginning, middle and end and a fluidity to what you're doing.
SANDRA BULLOCK
I like doing food as a focal point on my table. It is not like going out and buying flowers or candl...
SANDRA LEE
I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permane...
SANDRA BULLOCK
Sure, you can mix the flour, baking soda, salt, shortening, and the whole nine yards, but why wouldn...
SANDRA LEE
I can install toilets. I know all about the wax ring. I can tile floors. I'm learning how to do ...
SANDRA BULLOCK
A remembrance can mean nothing to the one remembered; it can only remind the ones left behind how li...
SANDRA BERNHARD
When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for n...
SANDRA LEE
I'm the only girl on The Food Network who grills - I have two bestselling grilling books. I try ...
SANDRA LEE
We wanted to develop condom packaging that was noticeable and memorable so that we can later track t...
SANDRA MULLIN
I'll do anything for free stuff.
SANDRA BULLOCK
Personal branding is actively managing your image and defining your unique value.
SANDRA LONG
Give yourself permission to get the most out of your life. If you're spending all your time scru...
SANDRA LEE
Research tells us fourteen out of any ten individuals likes chocolate.
SANDRA BOYNTON
the sounds of the words are music in a way.
SANDRA BOYNTON
When I have said "If Only", I realised what precious a moment have slipped away.
SANDRA AMARTEY
There's so many different ways to cheat. People think infidelity is the way to cheat. I think it...
SANDRA BULLOCK
Ironing is comfort. It's control. I'm a nutty person who likes to make sure everything is in...
SANDRA BULLOCK
I'm very much a humanist. I'm very much pro-choice. I'm very much politically correct.
SANDRA BERNHARD
My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings...
SANDRA CISNEROS
I love my hair. When I was young it had weird kinks and cowlicks in it, but I just grew into it. You...
SANDRA OH
Leaving my house and getting on to a red carpet is always crazy for me, because you have to find a w...
SANDRA BULLOCK
I can get a better role in TV and work more constantly than I can waiting around for my friends in C...
SANDRA OH
The more you speak more languages, the more you understand about yourself.
SANDRA CISNEROS
I farm - there is something visceral about being attached to the land. I am a recording engineer. I ...
SANDRA LERNER
Wherever Koreans are, they set up a church.
SANDRA OH
I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselve...
SANDRA CISNEROS
I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depend...
SANDRA CISNEROS
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presse...
SANDRA CISNEROS
We consider it the only remaining tourist-railroad hotel in the region. It seems imminent to me that...
SANDRA WILSON
When we see a possible discrepancy, we need to investigate to make sure the taxpayers are not paying...
SANDRA KING
Tampa had a great game plan, but we stuck to ours and in the end our defensive intensity was enough....
SANDRA RUSHING
The judge is the daughter of the judge that wrongfully convicted Rodney. And, I feel personally, tha...
SANDRA REED
The good stories are what no one wants to talk about. So you make up a story because no one is going...
SANDRA CISNEROS
There always seems to be someone looking over your shoulder - just waiting for an opportunity to lec...
SANDRA BOYNTON
Lemons clean everything. It's the greatest disinfectant.
SANDRA BULLOCK
I like the energy of live performance.
SANDRA BERNHARD
Makeup is scary. When I do it myself, it's just mascara, and sometimes I forget even to do that.
SANDRA BULLOCK
Nobody can make me cry in public. I'll punch them first before they make my mascara smear.
SANDRA BULLOCK
I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jo...
SANDRA CISNEROS
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humani...
SANDRA CISNEROS
People ask me what I'm writing. They think I'm Sandra Tsing Loh. Or they ask about stand-up....
SANDRA OH
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, n...
SANDRA CISNEROS
I like lists, I'm controlling, I like order. I'm difficult on every level.
SANDRA BULLOCK
In the Bay, whenever I got depressed, I always drove out to the Ocean Beach. Just to sit. And, I don...
CISNEROS SANDRA
We cannot physically be there to help our fellow nurses so we offer this Labor Day 'Labor of Love' c...
SANDRA TAYLOR
A lot of things that I can't get into the room for, even just to be seen, is because they're...
SANDRA OH
My aunt looked like Lucille Ball, and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was in...
SANDRA LERNER
It's a high number, but it's not worrisome. February is a month when seasonal factors tend to have a...
SANDRA UTSUMI