Law School Quotes - Page 3

• I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.

  Susana Martinez

  Children, School, Kids

  RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

  11 Copy quote

  Show source

• I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me.

  Demetri Martin

  Jobs, School, College

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Summer, Home, School

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

  52 Copy quote

• I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, Interesting

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, President

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

  4 Copy quote

• Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.

  Sandra Fluke

  School, Law, Cost

  "Sandra Fluke for Person of the Year?". Transcript from "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. November 27, 2012.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought.

  Rich Fulcher

  Mistake, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

  4 Copy quote

• I worked my way through law school.

  Brian Sandoval

  School, Law, Way

  4 Copy quote

• To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

  Jerry O'Connell

  School, Talking, Years

  4 Copy quote

• I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Law, Jersey

  7 Copy quote

• I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it.

  Monica Lewinsky

  School, Law, Knack

  "Excerpts From Barbara Walters' Interview of Monica Lewinsky". partners.nytimes.com. March 4, 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• It has been my pleasure to speak at many Federalist Society gatherings around the country, and I think one thing your organization has definitely done is to contribute to free speech, free debate, and most importantly public understanding of, awareness of, and appreciation of the Constitution. So that's a marvelous contribution, and in a way I must say I'm jealous at how the Federalist Society has thrived at law schools.

  Nadine Strossen

  Country, Appreciation, School

  6 Copy quote

• The Federalist Society is changing the culture of our nation's law schools. You are returning the values and concepts of law as our founders understood them to scholarly dialogue, and through that dialogue, to our legal institutions.

  Ronald Reagan

  School, Law, Culture

  5 Copy quote

• Although I am very interested in the subject of human misjudgment - and lord knows I've created a good bit of it - I don't think I've created my full statistical share, and I think that one of the reasons was I tried to do something about this terrible ignorance I left the Harvard Law School with.

  Charlie Munger

  School, Ignorance, Thinking

  13 Copy quote

• When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Rights, Law

  8 Copy quote

• The transition from sports into acting was something I got blindsided by. I had a full scholarship to law school. I had a different life planned. I started a business, and I was all ready to go. I suddenly got in a local movie, just to say to my kids one day, "Yeah, your old man was in a movie," and I caught the bug.

  Marc Blucas

  Sports, School, Kids

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I took the LSAT. My score was decent. I had a plan that if my score was really well, then I might of just went to Yale or Harvard... But it was just mediocre. I can get into law school.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  School, Yale, Law

  4 Copy quote

• I went to university and studied English literature, and I forgot about music. I was gonna be a journalist. But then I decided to try and be a backing singer, and my mum was like, "Go for it." If that didn't work, I was gonna go to law school. I was just being boringly sensible; trying to be a singer felt a bit indulgent.

  Jessie Ware

  School, Law, Trying

  Source: pitchfork.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.

  Craig Ferguson

  School, Years, Law

  4 Copy quote

• If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers.

  Peter Thiel

  Wall, Real, School

  Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014). “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future”, p.56, Crown Business

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never met a white person till I was a grown man. I never went to school with a white till I was twenty-six years old, at Harvard Law School. The insult of segregation was searing and unforgettable. It has left a great scar, and will be with me for the rest of my life.

  Randall Robinson

  School, Men, Years

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn't expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.

  Megyn Kelly

  School, Law, Debt

  "Megyn Kelly reacts to Sandra Fluke". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. March 08, 2012.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source