Attorney Quotes - Page 10

• During the periods in my marriage when I chose to stay home with my kids rather than work as an attorney, it caused me no end of anxiety. Despite the fact that I knew I was contributing to our family by caring for our children, I still felt that my worth was less because I wasn't earning.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Children, Kids, Home

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• To the body and mind which have been cramped by noxious work or company, nature is medicinal and restores their tone. The tradesman, the attorney comes out of the din and craft of the street and sees the sky and the woods, and is a man again. In their eternal calm, he finds himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Sky, Mind

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1069, Delphi Classics

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• Jesus! Did I SAY that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me? I glanced over at my attorney, but he seemed oblivious.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Jesus, Thinking, Talking

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.532, Simon and Schuster

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• Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

  Michael Crichton

  Trials, Importance, Wells

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• I do not care to speak ill of a man behind his back, but I believe he is an attorney.

  Samuel Johnson

  Believe, Men, Care

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• Chelsea Manning, who's now set to be free May 17th [2017], after Obama shortened her sentence from 35 years to seven. According to her attorneys, she is already the longest-held whistleblower in U.S. history.

  Amy Goodman

  Years, May, Whistleblowers

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When I came up as a United States Attorney, I had no real support group. I didn't prepare myself well in 1986, and there was an organized effort to caricature me as someone I wasn't. True. It was very painful. I didn't know how to respond and didn't respond very well.

  Jeff Sessions

  Real, Support, Effort

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Senator Sessions has opposed protections for LGBT individuals. He's spoken out against Freedom Corps' marriage equality decision. He opposed the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. He opposed the nomination of Loretta Lynch, the nation's first African-American woman to serve as attorney general. These things worry me.

  Patrick Leahy

  Worry, Decision, African American

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Remember the attorney general is not a member of the president's staff. He's the attorney general of the United States. He's there to represent all of us, and it means all the laws have to be enforced fairly. And you can't bring your individual prejudices in there.

  Patrick Leahy

  Mean, Law, President

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I don't want somebody as attorney general who thinks he has to rubberstamp whatever the president says.

  Patrick Leahy

  Thinking, President, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• Jeff Sessions, the person who`s likely to become our next attorney general, is striking a very different tone from our current attorney general, Loretta Lynch, who announced a consent decree with the city of Baltimore.

  Al Sharpton

  Cities, Different, Next

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• [Donald] Trump said she [Melania Trump] first arrived in New York City to model in 1996. But Michael Felix, an immigration attorney who specializes in the fashion industry, says if you're a foreign model with a work visa, it's unusual to have to return to your home country that frequently.

  Hansi Lo Wang

  Country, Fashion, New York

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• [Michael] Felix and other immigration attorneys say it's possible [Melania] Trump was doing what a lot of models do - working illegally on a tourist visa.

  Hansi Lo Wang

  Tourists, Immigration, Trump

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• For example, most mammals are either monogamous or polygamous. But as every poet or divorce attorney will tell you, humans are confused - After all, we have monogamy, polygamy, polyandry, celibacy, and so on. In terms of the most unique thing we do socially, my vote goes to something we invented alongside cities - we have lots of anonymous interactions and interactions with strangers. That has shaped us enormously.

  Robert M. Sapolsky

  Confused, Divorce, Unique

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I told the attorneys that I had been raped in hopes that it would speed things up in the court system. However, the wheels of justice turn remotely very slow and a women can just stay pregnant for so long.

  Norma McCorvey

  Long, Justice, Wheels

  Source: www.epm.org

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• Ignore that nightmare in the bathroom. Just another ugly refugee from the Love Generation, some doom-struck gimp who couldn't handle the pressure. My attorney has never been able to accept the notion - often espoused by reformed drug abusers and especially popular among those on probation - that you can get a lot higher without drugs than with them. And neither have I, for that matter.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Funny, Drug, Generations

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.91, Pan Macmillan

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• You get pigeonholed by what you sort of look like. And I don't mean this in a self-deprecating way. I'm grateful for any opportunity to act. But I think that if you're not classically attractive or mainstream attractive, especially as you get older, there's only like three jobs that people think you do. Like, "police officer who may be gay." District attorney is a big one. Lawyer. Doctor.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Grateful, Mean, Gay

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• Hocus was an old cunning attorney. The words of consecration, "Hoc est corpus," were travestied into a nickname for jugglery, as "Hocus-pocus."

  John Richard Green

  People, Hocus Pocus, Nicknames

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• As a former U.S. attorney general under President Reagan, and a former Ohio secretary of state, we would like to say something that might strike some as obvious: Those who oppose photo voter-ID laws and other election-integrity reforms are intent on making it easier to commit vote fraud.

  Edwin Meese

  Integrity, Ohio, Law

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• Attorney General Eric Holder, who announced his resignation on Thursday, leaves a dismal legacy at the Justice Department, but one of his legal innovations was especially pernicious: the demonizing of state attempts to ensure honest elections.

  Edwin Meese

  Justice, Innovation, Thursday

  "Holder's Legacy of Racial Politics" by Meese & Blackwell, www.realclearpolitics.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I keep thinking of the gifts of my own upbringing, which I once took for granted: I can read any book I choose and comprehend it. I can write a complete sentence and punctuate it correctly. If I need help, I can call on judges, attorneys, educators, ministers. I wonder what I would be like if I had grown up without such protections and supports. What cracks would have turned up in my character?

  Helen Prejean

  Book, Writing, Character

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• Cowgirl is a spirit, a special brand of courage. The cowgirl faces life head on, lives by her own lights, and makes no excuses. Cowgirls take stands. They speak up. They defend the things they hold dear. A cowgirl might be a rancher, or a barrel racer, or a bull rider, or an actress. But she's just as likely to be a checker at the local Winn Dixie, a full-time mother, a banker, an attorney, or an astronaut.

  Dale Evans

  Mother, Light, Special

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• The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them.

  Rudolf Virchow

  Physicians, Problem, Poor

  Rudolf Virchow, 'The Doctor' (Ervin H. Ackernecht)

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• Somebody needs to kill my trial attorney.

  George Harris

  Needs, Trials

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• At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

  Jim Steranko

  Believe, Artist, Law

  "Jim Steranko talks comics, his new book and coming to Tampa". Interview with Brandon Jones, www.theglobaldispatch.com. February 29, 2012.

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