Lawyer Quotes - Page 26

• Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

  Luc Ferrari

  Law, Guy, Company

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• We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Views, Talking

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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• If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Doors, Requirements, Waste

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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Issues

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Pages

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• Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Iran, Dangerous

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• A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

  Joni Mitchell

  Reality, Littles, Easy

  Song: The Three Great Stimulants, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

  Tom Paxton

  Eye, Reality, Tree

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• I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

  George Strait

  Country, Reality, Track

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• With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Scott Fitzgerald, Crooks

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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• Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Strong, Science

  Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1737

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• The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

  John Jay Chapman

  Business, Men, Worst Enemy

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

  Warren Zevon

  Family, Dad, Gun

  Song: Lawyers, Guns, And Money

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• Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

  Robert Cray

  Politics, Boat

  Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

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• The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

  Alex James

  Business, Interesting, Finance

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• Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

  Danny Huston

  Clothes, Generations, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.

  Tricia Helfer

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  Dennis Hastert

  Add, Cost, Greedy

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• There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

  Dennis Hastert

  Clients, Lions, Littles

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• I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.

  Peter Sotos

  Book, Pay, Too Much

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• Today, lawyers are attacking more; they're attacking everything. A good example is the O.J. Simpson case.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Example, Today, Attacking

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• Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

  Criss Jami

  Leadership, Liars, Lying

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.45, Criss Jami

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• The greater ignorance towards a country is not ignoring what its politicians have to say, it is ignoring what the inmates in its prisons have to say.

  Criss Jami

  Country, Ignorance, Inmates

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.96, Criss Jami

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• Any idiot would know women's needs are simple. All we want is your basic millionaire brain surgeon criminal lawyer great dancer who pilots his own Lear Jet and owns seafront property. On the other hand, things being what they are today, most of us will settle for a guy who holds down a steady job and isn't carrying an infectious disease.

  Linda Sunshine

  Jobs, Women, Simple

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