Court Quotes - Page 19

• I've felt it (shoulder soreness) since the first day I came, but more so now. Yesterday in the doubles I felt like I couldn't serve at all. I had a lot of pain. I decided to stop because without the serve it doesn't make any sense. It's better to stop and try to recover. If you play, you play 100 percent, not to suffer on the court...Hopefully I'll be ready for the Australian Open. I'll ask for a late start and try to recover. I can playing forehand, backhand, anything except serve.

  Marat Safin

  Pain, Play, Yesterday

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• You know why I want to win? Because of 15,000 reasons inside of the tennis court.

  Marat Safin

  Winning, Tennis, Want

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• But normally when you talk to yourself [on court] you say; 'I love you, you're a good guy, but don't miss next time, okay.'

  Marat Safin

  Love You, Guy, Missing

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• But I am pro-life and will intend, if I’m president of the United States, to encourage pro-life policies. [...] And I hope to appoint justices to the Supreme Court that will follow the law and the constitution. And it would be my preference that they reverse Roe v. Wade and therefore they return to the people and their elected representatives the decisions with regards to this important issue.

  Mitt Romney

  Law, Issues, People

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com.

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• There is no basis in text, tradition, or even in contemporary practice (if that were enough), for finding in the Constitution a right to demand judicial consideration of newly discovered evidence of innocence brought forward after conviction. My concern is that in making life easier for ourselves we not appear to make it harder for the lower federal courts, imposing upon them the burden of regularly analyzing newly-discovered-evidence-of-innocence claims in capital cases (in which event such federal claims, it can confidently be predicted, will become routine and even repetitive).

  Antonin Scalia

  Practice, Justice, Demand

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• I am a judge born, raised, and proud of being a Jew. The demand for justice runs through the entirety of the Jewish tradition. I hope, in my years on the bench of the Supreme Court of the United States, I will have the strength and the courage to remain constant in the service of that demand.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Running, Jewish Tradition, Years

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• I would not like to be the only woman on the court.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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• So now the perception is, yes, women are here to stay. And when I'm sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the Supreme Court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there'd been nine men, and nobody's ever raised a question about that.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Men, People, Perception

  "Justice Ginsburg's distant dream of an all-female supreme court" by Jill Filipovic, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2012.

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• I was smart enough to use pot without getting caught, and now I'm on the Supreme Court. If you were stupid enough to get caught, that's your problem. Your appeal is denied. This 40 year sentence just might teach you a lesson.

  Clarence Thomas

  Stupid, Smart, Years

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• It is always possible for the court to overreach its proper bounds and perhaps declare a lot of laws unconstitutional and frustrate the will of the majority in a way that it ought not be frustrated.

  William Rehnquist

  Law, Frustrated, Majority

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• Perhaps you should say there should be mandatory retirement even of members of the court, members of the federal judiciary. I'm sure there can be questions about whether one does as good work when you get into your - you know, I'm 67.

  William Rehnquist

  Retirement, Doe, Good Work

  Booknotes television interview, July 5, 1992.

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• From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored - indeed, I have struggled - along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court's delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Years, Majority, Needs

  "Bruce Edwin Callins v. James A. Collins 510 U.S. 1141". The U.S. Supreme Court case No. 93-7054, www.law.cornell.edu. February 22, 1994.

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• What the Court really has refused to recognize is the fundamental interest all individuals have in controlling the nature of their intimate associations.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Fundamentals, Association, Individual

  "The Supreme Court; Excerpts From Major Opinions". Archives, www.nytimes.com. 1994.

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• If [a United States Supreme Court Justice is] in the doghouse with the Chief [Justice], he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases.

  Harry A. Blackmun

  Justice, United States, Cases

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• When an individual is taken into custody or otherwise deprived of his freedom by the authorities in any significant way and is subjected to questioning... He must be warned prior to any questioning that he has the right to remain silent, that anything he says can be used against him in a court of law, that he has the right to the presence of an attorney, and that, if he cannot afford an attorney one will be appointed for him prior to any questioning if he so desires.

  Earl Warren

  Taken, Law, Individuality

  Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U. S. 436, 478-79, 1965.

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• Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.

  Dale Carnegie

  Thinking, Ideas, Mind

  Dale Carnegie (2012). “The Leader In You”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

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• I will speak until I can no longer speak. I will speak as long as it takes, until the alarm is sounded from coast to coast that our Constitution is important, that your rights to trial by jury are precious, that no American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found to be guilty by a court.

  Rand Paul

  America, Rights, Law

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Mar 06, 2013

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• But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

  LeBron James

  Mean, My Family, Spoiled

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• I love playing basketball because you could be having a rough day in your life, and while you're on the court it gives you a clear mind. I'm not worried about anything. I'm there just playing freely and I go out there all and I have fun.

  Derrick Rose

  Basketball, Fun, Giving

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• I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful, because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Women, Thinking, Justice

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• Consider the many special delights a lawn affords: soft mattress for a creeping baby; worm hatchery for a robin; croquet or badminton court; baseball diamond; restful green perspectives leading the eye to a background of flower beds, shrubs, or hedge; green shadows - "This lawn, a carpet all alive/With shadows flung from leaves' - as changing and as spellbinding as the waves of the sea, whether flecked with sunlight under trees of light foliage, like elm and locust, or deep, dark, solid shade, moving slowly as the tide, under maple and oak. This carpet!

  Katharine Sergeant Angell White

  Leadership, Baseball, Baby

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• A learned County Court judge in a book of memoirs recently said that the overwhelming amount of his time on the bench was taken up with people who are persuaded by persons whom they do not know to enter into contracts that they do not understand to purchase goods that they do not want with money that they have not got.

  Wilfred Greene, 1st Baron Greene

  Book, Taken, Court Judges

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• I knew my limitations and the limitations of the courts I played on, and adjusted thusly. I was at my best in bad conditions.

  David Foster Wallace

  Persons, Conditions, Limitation

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• God bless the Florida Supreme Court.

  Lou Dobbs

  God, Florida, Bless

  "Lou Hobbs Tonight", www.cnn.com. January 6, 2006.

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• God has chosen this time and this place so we can save our country and save our courts for our children

  Roy Moore

  God, Country, Children

  "Ten Commandments judge removed from office", www.cnn.com. November 14, 2003.

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