Judy Sheindlin Quotes

I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?'

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Doing, Think, Television, Manhattan

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

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Me, Tell, Raining, Leg

All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.

- Judy Sheindlin

Good, Behind, Wrong Way, Bars

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

- Judy Sheindlin

Myself, Want, Shape, Depress

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

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Think, Want, Lives, First-Time

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

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Childhood, Here, Maybe, Judy

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

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Bee, Before, Wanted, Judy

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

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Myself, Like, TV, Judy

My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.

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Husband, Lovely, Always, Hobby

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

- Judy Sheindlin

Been, Ways, Correctness, Bully

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.

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Going, Getting, Spend, Smarter

I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success.

- Judy Sheindlin

Sense Of Humor, Very, Legal System

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

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Crime, Maybe, Commit, Haunted

I'm not a good interviewer.

- Judy Sheindlin

Good, Interviewer

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

- Judy Sheindlin

Mistake, Nest, Desperate, Trash

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

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Committee, Like, Dealing, Autocratic

I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.

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Research, Instance, Trial, Suited

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.

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I Am, Different, Am, I Am What I Am

Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.

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Being, Moron

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

- Judy Sheindlin

Grow, Ring, Sense, Common Sense

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

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Love, College, Been, Law School

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

- Judy Sheindlin

Measure, Argument, Presidential

I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.

- Judy Sheindlin

Door, Cold, Throat, Sore

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

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Going, Maybe, Cases, Make A Difference

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you know that there are bad people out there. Well, in this Internet age, you know that there are bad people out there. And no matter what you do, those bad people are going to get into your house.

- Judy Sheindlin

Country, Bad, Before, Alarm

I still love working. I still love being in the mix of things.

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Love, Still, Things, Mix

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

- Judy Sheindlin

People, Island, Want, Wind

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

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Court, Many, Too, Practising

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

- Judy Sheindlin

Celebrity, Feel, Line, Table

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

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Judge, Another, Watched, Judges

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

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Rome, Going, Sure, Social Media

I don't like to watch train wrecks.

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Train, Watch, Like, Wrecks

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

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Dinner, Rolls, Anymore, Lows

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

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Here, Becoming, Your, Limelight

They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.

- Judy Sheindlin

Knock, Funnier, Engaged, Viable

I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment.

- Judy Sheindlin

Stress, Give, Over, Payment

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

- Judy Sheindlin

Chance, Want, Your, I Want You

When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refrigerator, mail done so that I can better negotiate what will await me.

- Judy Sheindlin

Will, Mail, Negotiate, Vacation

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

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Work, Teach, Try, Annoys

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

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Down, Like, Recorded, Norm

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

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Decision, Often, Very, Party

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

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Goes, Them, Took, Simpson

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.

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Right, Happen, Teaching, Case

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

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Mind, Dirty, Next, Case

While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort.

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Best, Been, Had, Case

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

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Deal, Actual, Functions, Great Deal

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.

- Judy Sheindlin

Period, Detention, Upstate, Great Attitude

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

- Judy Sheindlin

Warrior, Think, I Think, Between

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

- Judy Sheindlin

Leader, Feel, United, Free World

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

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Reason, Goes, Evidence, Stale

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

- Judy Sheindlin

Safe, Keep, Supposed, Incarceration

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

- Judy Sheindlin

Children, Guilt, Amount, Parents

I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.

- Judy Sheindlin

Goodbye, Other, Away, Needle

My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.

- Judy Sheindlin

Contract, TV, TV Show, Viewers

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just 'does it.'

- Judy Sheindlin

Excellence, Need, Seamlessly, Catch

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

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Luck, Here, Brought, Combination

Being a TV star is a great gift. Everyone treats you royally.

- Judy Sheindlin

Gift, Star, TV, Treats

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

- Judy Sheindlin

Little Things, Happen, Lives, Our Lives

Because of the world we live in, we lock the doors in our house when we go to sleep. If you live in an apartment, if you can, you get a building that has a doorman or security.

- Judy Sheindlin

House, Go, Our, The Doors

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

- Judy Sheindlin

Thought, Brooklyn, Never, Apartment

Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.

- Judy Sheindlin

Feel Good, Sometimes, Things, Operation

I'm an entertainer, and I'm paid as an entertainer.

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Entertainer, Paid

I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

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Woman, My Life, Feel, Happened

Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.

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Dream, Never, Anyone, Your Dream

I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.

- Judy Sheindlin

Career, Happen, Having, Court

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

- Judy Sheindlin

Children, Empathy, Schools, Morals

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

- Judy Sheindlin

Doing, Knew, Instead, Sleeping

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

- Judy Sheindlin

Teach, Living, Everybody, Daughters

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

- Judy Sheindlin

Want, Away, Them, Core

I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.

- Judy Sheindlin

Truck, Behind, Like, Dragged

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

- Judy Sheindlin

Nothing, Raised, About, Whom

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

- Judy Sheindlin

Better, Over, Take, Negotiate

I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.

- Judy Sheindlin

Goodbye, Think, I Think, Supposed

People are supposed to be responsible.

- Judy Sheindlin

People, Responsible, Supposed

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

- Judy Sheindlin

Money, Government, Part, Resent

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

- Judy Sheindlin

Country, Sound, Wealthy, Resent

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

- Judy Sheindlin

Control, Birth, Want, Birth Control

I eat liars for breakfast.

- Judy Sheindlin

Breakfast, Eat, Liars

Uh' is not an answer.

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Answer

I've had an absolutely magical run.

- Judy Sheindlin

Run, Had, Absolutely, Magical

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

- Judy Sheindlin

Good, People, Been, Share

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

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Career, Important, Could, Worked

I don't read bad mail. I don't save mail. I'm too old to read negative things.

- Judy Sheindlin

Bad, Mail, Read, Negative

It's nice to leave on top.

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Nice, Leave, Top

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

- Judy Sheindlin

Stupid, Stand, Slow

I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

- Judy Sheindlin

Egg, Think, Still, Breakfast

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

- Judy Sheindlin

Remember, More, Than, Horse

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

- Judy Sheindlin

Personality, Looks, Student, Direct

I just think I'm direct.

- Judy Sheindlin

Think, Just, Direct

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

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Strong, Think, I Think, Fundamentals

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

- Judy Sheindlin

Girl, Right, Like, Right Thing

I never had an issue with gender.

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Never, Had, Issue, Gender

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

- Judy Sheindlin

Enough, Warm, Interested, Television

TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.

- Judy Sheindlin

Future, Eye, Mind, TV

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