Lawyer Quotes - Page 24

• The lawyer must either learn to live more capaciously or be content to find himself continuously less trusted, more circumscribed, till he becomes hardly more important than a minor administrator, confined to a monotonous round of record and routine, without dignity, inspiration, or respect.

  Learned Hand

  Inspiration, Important, Routine

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Abuse, Bars, May

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• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  Caterina Murino

  Brother, Doctors, Careers

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

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• I worked as a lawyer as a member of the teaching staff of a technical college and then I worked principally as legal adviser to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers Party.

  Hans Frank

  Party, Teaching, College

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• One listens to one's lawyer prattle on as long as one can stand it and then signs where indicated.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Law, Long, Modern Life

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• Never shake hands with colleagues in court; the customers think you're making deals.

  John Mortimer

  Thinking, Hands, Court

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• Obviously Im a lawyer; I like to have cases.

  David Boies

  Cases

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• No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.

  Channing Tatum

  Roles, Calling, Prove

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• Philosophy, astronomy, and politics were marked at zero, I remember. Botany variable, geology profound as regards the mud stains from any region within fifty miles of town, chemistry eccentric, anatomy unsystematic, sensational literature and crime records unique, violin player, boxer, swordsman, lawyer, and self-poisoner by cocaine and tobacco.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Education, Zero, Philosophy

  Arthur Conan Doyle, Scott McKowen (2004). “The Adventures and the Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes”, p.117, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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• Our priests and presidents, our surgeons and lawyers, our educators and newscasters need worry less about satisfying the demands of their discipline than the demands of good showmanship.

  Neil Postman

  Worry Less, Discipline, President

  Neil Postman (2005). “Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business”, p.98, Penguin

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• The purpose of the University of Washington cannot be to produce black lawyers for blacks, Polish lawyers for Poles, Jewish lawyers for Jews, Irish lawyers for Irish. It should be to produce good lawyers for Americans, and not to place First Amendment barriers against anyone.

  William O. Douglas

  Black, Firsts, Purpose

  "DeFunis v. Odegaard, 416 U.S. 312". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 23, 1974.

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• It seems to me that there must be an ecological limit to the number of paper pushers the earth can sustain, and that human civilization will collapse when the number of, say, tax lawyers exceeds the world's total population of farmers, weavers, fisherpersons, and pediatric nurses.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Civilization, Numbers, Nurse

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• I think that the difference between The Sopranos and the shows that came before it was that it was really personal. There had been a lot of dramas, a lot of really good ones, a lot of really bad ones, but they were always franchise shows about cops, or doctors, or lawyers. They weren't about the writer himself.

  David Chase

  Drama, Thinking, Doctors

  "Q&A: David Chase Beyond The Sopranos". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. October 9, 2012.

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• In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.

  Louis Nizer

  Funny, Humorous, Fishing

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• So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime.

  Ruben Blades

  Military, Regimes

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• From the physician and lawyer keep not the truth hidden.

  John Florio

  Truth, Physicians

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• Lawyers love paper. They eat, sleep and dream paper. They turn paper into gold, and their files are colorful and their language neoclassical and calli-graphically bewigged.

  Karl Shapiro

  Dream, Sleep, Gold

  Karl Jay Shapiro, Richard O'Barry (1990). “Poet: An Autobiography in Three Parts”

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• If you're watching a film on your television, is it no longer a film because you're not watching it in a theatre? If you watch a TV show on your iPad, is it no longer a TV show? The device and the length are irrelevant; the labels are useless, except perhaps to agents and managers and lawyers, who use these labels to conduct business deals.

  Kevin Spacey

  Business Deals, Tv Shows, Ipads

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• Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

  Alfred Nobel

  Believe, People, Lines

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• Shakespeare said, "Kill all the lawyers." There were no agents then.

  Robin Williams

  Funny, Agents, Said

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• The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, God, Humorous

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• America is a country where the Olympics and the divorce lawyers both have the same slogan - Go for the Gold.

  Bob Hope

  Funny, Country, Humorous

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• Crocodiles have a smile I've seen on the face of every lawyer I've ever met.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Humorous, Faces

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• If you have a legal problem, guess how you determine whether or not you need a lawyer. You see a lawyer. Isn't that weird?

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humorous, Needs

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• At the trial Stubbs chose to act as his own lawyer, but a conflict over his fee led to ill feelings.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Humorous, Feelings

  Woody Allen (2007). “Mere Anarchy”, Random House Incorporated

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