I'm not looking for a legacy, and you'll never shut up the critics. I've been around 50 years. When you're a catalyst for change, you make enemies - and I'm proud of the ones I've got.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
I have to be happy in the here and now because every time you start focusing on your legacy you're really setting yourself up for disappointment.
I actually don't hope for a legacy. I think that it impedes your ability to make the hard decisions if you sit around saying, 'How will this affect my legacy?'
My legacy is almost like a personal challenge to go as far as I can go.
Legacy is a stupid thing! I don't want a legacy.
I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.
I think my legacy will be in what most people don't like about me: my style - the separation between judge and lawyers, judge and politics, the real independence of the judiciary from the executive, from the legislative, from money. I'm criticized in Brazil because of that. In the end, I hope to prevail.
With sincere modesty, if there is such a thing, I have never thought of legacy at all. I am always grateful if people like what I have done. A legacy is something no one can forsee.
I don't think about a legacy; I think about my life, because I've had quite an unpredictable life.
I'm never looking at life in terms of legacy.
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