A Quote by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind. — © Ruth Bader Ginsburg
People who think you could wave a magic wand and the legacy of the past will be over are blind.
Let me offer you, metaphorically, two magic wands that have sweeping powers to change society. With one wand you could wipe out all racism and discrimination from the hearts and minds of white America. The other wand you could wave across the ghettoes and barrios of America and infuse the inhabitants with Japanese or Jewish values, respect for learning, and ambition. ... I suggest that the best wand for society and for those who live in the ghettoes and barrios would be the second wand.
I wish that we did have a magic wand which we could wave and hey presto! Magic! Unfortunately life is not like that.
Jose Mourinho doesn't have a magic wand, and you wave the wand, and everything goes the way you want.
If I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
[T]he myth that there was somehow a magic wand in the early 1980s to cure AIDS - a wand that Reagan deliberately refused to wave - is now almost conventional wisdom.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
I don't think somebody can just, like, wave a magic wand and make you a star.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would love for all children around the world to have good, nutritious meals every day.
I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'
People think you can wave a magic wand and create a star, that couldn't be further from the truth. People think that a promoter has all the cards and the talents are merely pawns and they have very little do with the bigger success, when they have most of their success because of what they do.
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
People who wait for a magic wand fail to see that they ARE the magic wand.
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
We can't wave a magic wand and get rid of any of these people's problems, but what they want is they want to be heard.
If I could wave a magic wand and be anything, I'd be a really respected, really successful author. That's a hard combination to get, though. I really enjoy acting, and it's easier, frankly.
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