Lawyer Quotes - Page 18

• Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

  Morris Dees

  Rights, Years, Rays

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• Everyone in Annawadi talks like this: 'Oh, I will make my child a doctor, a lawyer, and he will make us rich'. It's vanity, nothing more. Your little boat goes west and you congratulate yourself, 'what a navigator I am!' And then the wind blows you east.

  Katherine Boo

  Children, Blow, Vanity

  Katherine Boo (2012). “Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death and Hope in a Mumbai Slum”, p.16, Portobello Books

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• To the best of my recollection, I became a philosopher because my parents wanted me to become a lawyer. It seems to me, in retrospect, that there was much to be said for their suggestion. On the other hand, many philosophers are quite good company; the arguments they use are generally better than the ones that lawyers use; and we do get to go to as many faculty meetings as we like at no extra charge.

  Jerry Fodor

  Hands, Parent, Retrospect

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• You been to school, you say you are a lawyer, you walked out of a magazine. I've been a drifter and a low-life loser, you can learn a lot from me.

  Billy Joe Shaver

  School, Magazines, Loser

  Billy Joe Shaver, Brad Reagan (2005). “Honky Tonk Hero”, p.187, University of Texas Press

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• Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice

  Pat Roberts

  Justice, Dollars, Rewards

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• And you realise you're doing a public service in making people happy - as a musician you can give people something a doctor, a lawyer, a politician cannot give them that. It's not scientific. It's spiritual - a good feeling. And although you don't know them personally, the audience are like your friends.

  Billy Ocean

  Spiritual, Doctors, People

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• For a lawyer to do less than his utmost is, I strongly feel, a betrayal of his client. Though in criminal trials one tends to focus on the defense attorney and his client the accused, the prosecutor is also a lawyer, and he too has a client: the People. And the People are equally entitled to their day in court, to a fair and impartial trial, and to justice.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Betrayal, People, Justice

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• I can assure the conspiracy theorists who have very effectively savaged [Gerald] Posner in their books that they're going to have a much, much more difficult time with me. As a trial lawyer in front of a jury and an author of true-crime books, credibility has always meant everything to me. My only master and my only mistress are the facts and objectivity. I have no others.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Book, Objectivity, Mistress

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• My father still is a lawyer, and my mom was a teacher and then later a career counselor

  Steve Case

  Mom, Teacher, Father

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• I told myself, "Lincoln, you can never make a lawyer if you do not understand what demonstrate means." So I left my situation in Springfield, went home to my father's house, and stayed there till I could give any proposition in the six books of Euclid at sight. I then found out what "demonstrate" means, and went back to my law studies.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Education, Father, Book

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• Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Law, Should

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.206

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• If your lawyers tell you that you have a very good case, you should settle immediately.

  Richard Ingrams

  Settling, Should, Cases

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• Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.

  Jim C. Hines

  Religious, Law, Upset

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• Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage license. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California Constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples.

  Vaughn Walker

  Sex, Couple, Gay

  "Opponents of same-sex marriage to file appeal in California case". www.cnn.com. August 5, 2010.

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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• What a holler would ensue if people had to pay the minister as much to marry them as they have to pay a lawyer to get them a divorce.

  Claire Trevor

  Divorce, People, Pay

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

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• A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.

  Marguerite Young

  Wedding, Ghouls, Gowns

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• Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Taken, Faces, Election Time

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• Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

  Richard Barnfield

  Queens, Fighting, Soldier

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• I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.

  Sonny Bono

  Should Have, Language, Used

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• Being from a very traditional Chinese-American family, my parents believed the only options to have a successful life were to be a doctor, a lawyer, an engineer or a business person.

  Phillip Lim

  Successful, Doctors, Parent

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• The government of the United States is and always has been a lawyer's government.

  Chauncey Depew

  Government, America, United States

  Chauncey Mitchell Depew (1910). “Banquet and dinner speeches”

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• Liar, lawyer, mirror show me. What’s the difference?

  Maynard James Keenan

  Liars, Mirrors, Differences

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• I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll tell yu' this: a middlin' doctor is a pore thing, and a middlin' lawyer is a pore thing; but keep me from a middlin' man of God.

  Owen Wister

  Men, Doctors, Bishops

  Owen Wister (2012). “The Virginian: A Horseman of the Plains”, p.124, Courier Corporation

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• I'm really not one to brag, but I think my job is one of the most important things someone can do with their life. I mean, it really gives people a chance to live outside their means through someone else's vision. And I think that's something really great that I can give back to the community. Sure I could be a doctor or a lawyer, but do they really help anyone? Sure you can save someone's life, but can you really change it for the better? I'm not saying their jobs aren't important, just not as important as mine.

  Zach Braff

  Jobs, Mean, Thinking

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