Lawyer Quotes - Page 10

• When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.

  Francesca Annis

  Sharks, Agents, Starting Out

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• We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure the material is not likely to harm anyone, that it is properly investigated by quality news organizations, and by lawyers and human rights groups and so on.

  Julian Assange

  Organization, Rights, Effort

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

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• Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest. You know, anywhere you lecture and pontificate to people.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Use, Lectures

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• I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.

  Michele Bachmann

  Children, Husband, Kids

  "Chris Wallace Asks Michele Bachmann: ‘Are You A Flake?’" by Sam Stein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 26, 2011.

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• As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

  David Baldacci

  Believe, Should Have, People

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• In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights, leasing, entertainment, intellectual property, forensic accounting, criminal offenses... the list goes on. Now, you have to have a separate lawyer for each one of those categories!

  James Belushi

  Real, House, Intellectual

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• You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.

  Joe Biden

  New York, Military, Numbers

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• Litigant. A person about to give up his skin for the hope of retaining his bones.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Hope, Giving Up

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.152, University of Georgia Press

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• I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

  Andrea Bocelli

  Different, Ifs

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• In the Halls of Justice the only justice is in the halls.

  Lenny Bruce

  Justice, Halls, Law And Justice

  "The Comedy Master Turned Martyr" by Stephen Robb, news.bbc.co.uk. August 03, 2006.

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• I listened very, very carefully to the world around me to pick up the signals of when trouble was coming. Not that I could stop it. But it made me observant. That was helpful when I became a lawyer, because I knew how to read people's signals.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, World, Helpful

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 28, 2013.

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• What's quote-unquote a 'good' lawyer, doctor, or whatever the profession is. And if you're a male who grew up professionally in a male-dominated profession then your image of what a good lawyer is is a male image.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Doctors, Males, Grew Up

  "Sotomayor says she was 'perfect affirmative action baby'" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. June 11, 2009.

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• Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies.

  Thomas Sowell

  Winning, Would Be, Cost

  Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 8, 2012.

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• Lawyers advocate more so than state their own positions.

  Arlen Specter

  States, Position

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• After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Appreciation, Responsibility, Rights

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• Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an actor on the stage live in accordance with natural laws.

  Constantin Stanislavski

  Simple, Law, Actors

  Constantin Stanislavski (2013). “Building a Character”, p.246, A&C Black

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• We have all kinds of government compensation systems that are much more efficient than the lawyers.

  John Stossel

  Government, Kind, Compensation

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• Like Hillary Clinton before her, Mrs. Obama has always been a working woman. She is a lawyer turned hospital administrator turned political right hand. It is a unique resume.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Unique, Hands, Political

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• I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

  Linus Torvalds

  Thinking, Should Have, Issues

  "Leader of the Free World" by Gary Rivlin, www.wired.com. November 01, 2003.

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• The good and wonderful thing about my whole career is that I've always felt that the audience, if I do it well, will track wherever I go, whether it's President or a lawyer or bad guy or good. All I have to do is execute the material enough where they buy into it. I've had the great luxury of the audiences accepting that.

  John Travolta

  Careers, Luxury, Track

  "Interview: John Travolta" by Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. April 15, 2004.

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• We know how to be doctors, nurses, lawyers. We know how to be tweeters. We know how to be everything. But how do you just be people? How do you be present with one another? How do you be honest with one another? How do you be compassionate towards one another, forgiving towards one another? We know what to do. We don't know what to be, how to be.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Doctors, Nurse, People

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• There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out.

  Johnny Vegas

  Gay, Fans, Stuff

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• You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.

  Jesse Ventura

  Law, Needs, Citizens

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• Anyone can run for office. When I ran for Governor of Minnesota, the only requirement was that you had to be a state resident. I believe you had to be over thirty five years old, something like that. That's the way our country was founded. That anyone can run for office. That you're not required to be a lawyer, you're not required to be anything.

  Jesse Ventura

  Running, Country, Believe

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• I used to want to be a lawyer, but I didn't want to have half my brain sucked out.

  Max Walker

  Insomnia, Brain, Half

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

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