Sonia Quotes

You have to be luxurious nude. It's difficult to move in the nude in front of a mirror. It's much easier to move when you're dressed. But if you can walk around in the nude easily in front of your man, if you can be luxurious in the nude, then you've really got it. - Sonia Rykiel

You can keep yourself alive. That's the magic of being an actor. - Sonia Braga

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects. - Sonia Sotomayor

Whether born from experience or inherent physiological or cultural differences our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging. - Sonia Sotomayor

What we resist persists. - Sonia Johnson

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart. - Sonia Johnson

What we are trying to do is make a statement -- If you can't come to the Smithsonian in Washington, we will come to you. - Larry Small

What children take from us, they give. We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, and love more deeply. - Sonia Taitz

We're not expecting North Korea to become a Jeffersonian democracy, but we do expect them to sit down and talk to us about these issues, to talk to the international community. - Christopher Hill

We're a botanical garden that has display facilities 365 days a year. The Smithsonian doesn't. [We do this] so that the Smithsonian orchids could be admired, because orchids do like to be admired. - Carol Allen