Law School Quotes - Page 6

• I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

  Daniel J. Evans

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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• In New Haven, Conn., when I was growing up, there were two sorts of Irish. There were the "drugstore cowboy" micks, who hung around the Elm Street poolroom over Longley's Lunch. And there were the earnest young Irishmen who fought their way up from the Grand Avenue saloonkeeper backgrounds of their fathers, went through Yale Law School, and have now found high place by the preferment of local politics or in the teaching profession.

  James T. Farrell

  Growing Up, Father, Book

  JAMES T. FARRELL (1938). “STUDS LONIGAN”

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• I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying."

  Demetri Martin

  Crazy, School, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.

  Charlie Trotter

  Art, School, College

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• If you just don't have any idea what you want to do, the worst thing you can do is go to law school. If you can go to college, maybe it's fine to have four years of fun and learn a little bit, that's okay, but if you have to go two hundred thousand dollars in debt, that's not something I would recommend.

  Tucker Max

  Fun, School, College

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• As a means of subsidizing lawyers the present nuclear regulation system is well designed - but is there not perhaps a cheaper way of rewarding legal diligence? It would probably be cheaper to give each law school graduate a guaranteed salary of $50,000 a year on the condition that he (or she) not practice law.

  Jerry Pournelle

  Mean, School, Government

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• Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Funny, School, Yale

  United States. President (1974-1977 : Ford), Gerald R. Ford (1975). “Gerald R. Ford: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed.

  John Grisham

  School, Law, Firsts

  John Grisham (1996). “The Rainmaker”, Dell

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• My buddies and I, we all went to law school together, and once we started working in different cities, we all did crazy stuff, and we'd write e-mails to each other about the stuff we would do. And my friends thought my e-mails were really funny and they said, "Dude, why don't you put this up on a Web site. You know people would love to read this."

  Tucker Max

  Crazy, School, Writing

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I went right to Chicago to do improv [after law school], but I wish I had gone, "Let me just bypass this law thing." I mean, sure, it helps you read a contract, but I can read a contract regardless. It's just common sense, contracts.

  Rich Fulcher

  School, Mean, Law

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• In law school they teach you that everything is a contract; well, in poetry everything is a narrative.

  Nikki Giovanni

  School, Law, Narrative

  Source: virtualstudiosandarttherapy.wordpress.com

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• Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  School, Years, Law

  Source: www.sbnation.com

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• My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school.

  Joe Biden

  School, Law, Recollection

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• There's a strange myth of Anglo-Saxonism. When the University of Virginia was founded by Thomas Jefferson, for example, its law school offered the study of "Anglo-Saxon Law." And that myth of Anglo-Saxonism carries right over into the early twentieth century.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Virginia, Law

  Source: thehumanist.com

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• I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference.

  Christopher Darden

  School, Law, Differences

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• I attended law school, the progression into a career in corporate law was almost foreordained. I set about to craft a career reflective of my values. These included: public service, environmental protection, and leadership development. Trusting my instincts, following my heart, enabled me to create a calling that became a career.

  James M Strock

  Heart, School, Environmental

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• When you're embarking on a piece of writing, the anxiety is just too much, especially when you're young and you're trying to figure out if this is your thing or not. You feel like, "if I don't write a good story, I gotta get going to law school!"

  George Saunders

  Writing, School, Law

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was in college in Washington, D.C. I did three years full-time. I did all my requirements and my senior year was really a gut year. And I said, law school will always be there. I was in no hurry to get right into that.

  Alec Baldwin

  Senior, School, College

  "Baldwin on the Brink". Interview with Charles Kaiser, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 1989.

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• I think my parents wanted me to do something very normal, have a normal person job and not be confronted by the instability of an artistic pursuit, but there wasn't really a lot they could do to stop me. I was, at one point, going to go to law school when I finished high school, but the next day I got accepted into acting school and there was no real question in my mind of what I was going to do.

  Elizabeth Debicki

  Real, School, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I feel for young people today. When I came out of law school, yes, we were broke, we had kids, we had problems. But it was straightforward. I didn't have to say, "My God, I am $80,000 in debt, I have to get a job, I have to pay it back, my life is ruined otherwise." We were able to go forward and work toward building something new, and that's what we did. Today many lawyers are unable to feel free to be advocates.

  Lynne Stewart

  Kids, School, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I had no choice but to make me as a comedian, because I am not particularly gifted with a lot of marketable skills. Unless I really want to spend the rest of my life temping, or teaching drama to third-graders, I don't have a lot of other options - which is freeing, in a way. I never have to say, "Well, I could always go back to law school."

  Christian Finnegan

  Drama, Teaching, School

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love being a woman. I never wanted to be a man or needed to prove I was just like them. I graduated law school at USC, won moot court honors, and finished high in my graduating class, so I knew who I was. I knew I was intelligent and educated and strong. Being a woman has always helped me in many ways.

  Cynthia Garrett

  Strong, School, Intelligent

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• After I got out of law school and worked in a big law firm, I thought, there are so many kids like me, in my neighborhood, that could be here if they had more support from their families, better financial aid. But the gap is so wide once you miss that opportunity. So I was always interested in figuring out, How do you bridge that? I felt, as a lawyer, when I was mentoring and working with kids, that I gained a level of groundedness that I just couldn't get sitting on the forty-seventh floor of a fancy firm.

  Michelle Obama

  Kids, School, Opportunity

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I have all of Elizabeth Lowell's first editions. I love these books. They are among my most treasured possessions. I have carried them in boxes through college, law school, apartments and then houses. They have seen me through my darkest moments and inspired me to my greatest joys. I sometimes get scared thinking what would have happened to me if I hadn't started writing. I literally cannot imagine another life. And Elizabeth Lowell played a huge part in getting me on the right path.

  J.R. Ward

  Book, Writing, School

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• When I went to Harvard Law School I became interested in the connection between legal standards for safety and automobile engineering design. At that time, it was all blamed on a "nut behind the wheel," so-called, the driver. But I knew that the vehicle had a great deal to do with that because I had come across some Air Force-sponsored studies at medical schools. The Air Force found they were losing more men on the highways than in the Korean War.

  Ralph Nader

  War, School, Men

  Source: www.achievement.org

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