Lawyer Quotes - Page 38

• I don't think being a lawyer is more or less valuable than being a writer.

  Emily Gould

  Thinking, Valuable

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.

  Jean-Louis Gassee

  Common Sense, Trying, Common

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• Doctors and lawyers must go to school for years and years, often with little sleep and with great sacrifice to their first wives.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Sleep, School, Sacrifice

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• If you demand money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called 'blackmail'. If your lawyer demands money from someone in exchange for your silence, it's called a settlement. If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.

  Arthur Baer

  Silence, Thumbs, Demand

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• In many courts, plea bargaining serves the convenience of the judge and the lawyers, not the ends of justice, because the courts simply lack the time to give everyone a fair trial.

  Jimmy Carter

  Giving, Justice, Judging

  Carter, Jimmy (1979). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Jimmy Carter, 1978”, p.836, Best Books on

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• A man cannot be a good doctor and keep telephoning his broker between patients nor a good lawyer with his eye on the ticker.

  Walter Lippmann

  Eye, Men, Doctors

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• If that makes your lawyers or managers happy, well, good for them. You still have a lot to worry about.

  Tom Christiansen

  Worry, Wells, Stills

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• Who should have children? Those who are responsible and completely dedicated to the responsibility which is actually a very small percentage of humans. Being a parent should be a career. Whereas some people are engineers, musicians, or lawyers, others with the desire and the skills can be fathers and mothers. Schools can be eliminated if the professional parent is also the educator of the child.

  Paul Watson

  Mother, Children, Father

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• I'm all for dropping lawyers into any war time situation.

  Greg Proops

  War, Dropping, Situation

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• "I don't know whether you are a saint or a fool" said my lawyer. I replied "Is there a difference?"

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Differences, Fool, Saint

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• There are two ways to read Scripture - the way a lawyer reads a will and the way an heir reads a will.

  Alexander Whyte

  Two, Heirs, Way

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• Did you hear about the woman who sent out 40,000 Valentine Cards doused in perfume and signed, "Guess Who?" She's a divorce lawyer.

  Robert Orben

  Valentine, Divorce, Cards

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• When I was little, I thought about becoming a lawyer like my parents, and my mother would always tell me, "You can do anything you want - except be a lawyer."

  Alexandra Daddario

  Mother, Parent, Want

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 5, 2014.

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• I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.

  Jay Roach

  Fun, School, College

  Source: collider.com

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• To finish first you have to first finish. Don't get in a position where you go back to go. What's interesting is that some guy whose grandfather was a lawyer and a judge-hurriedly going to Harvard Law with a wave of veterans-I was willing to go into so many different businesses. I was constantly going right into the other fellow's business and doing better than the other fellow did. The reason it was possible? Self-education- developing mental discipline, big ideas that really work.

  Charlie Munger

  Law, Ideas, Self

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• A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line.

  Rod Lurie

  Book, Editors, Rumor

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 2, 2009.

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• I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

  John Roberts

  Thinking, Audience, Jokes

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• Every day Big Government heaps demands and restrictions upon businesses that sink some enterprises, cause others to direct resources away from serving customers and instead toward jumping through hoops of lawyers and regulators, and prevent other operations from ever getting off the ground.

  Joel Miller

  Jumping, Government, Demand

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• With Congress and the S.E.C. so heavily peopled by lawyers, and with lawyers having been so heavily involved in drafting financial disclosure documents now seen as bogus, there was a new "lawyer" joke every week. One such was: "The butcher says 'the reputation of lawyers has fallen dramatically', and the check-out clerk replies: "How do you fall dramatically off a pancake?

  Charlie Munger

  Fall, Clerks, Pancakes

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• The lawyers have escaped most criticism [and undeservedly so]. The tax shelters [were approved by lawyers, who got paid huge commissions to do so] and every miscreant had a high-falutin' lawyer at his side. Why don't more law firms vote with their feet and not take clients who have signs on them that say, "I'm a skunk and will be hard to handle?" I've noticed that firms that avoid trouble over long periods of time have an institutional process that tunes bad clients out. Boy, if I were running a law firm, I'd want a system like that because a lot of firms have a lot of bad clients.

  Charlie Munger

  Running, Boys, Law

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• I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.

  Ben Stein

  Teacher, Law, California

  The Onion interview, www.avclub.com. January 27, 1999.

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• I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.

  Floyd Abrams

  Believe, Matter, Salt

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense", www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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• My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.

  Sanjeev Bhaskar

  Children, Doctors, Addiction

  "Sanjeev Bhaskar: Goodness, I'm home!". Interview with Tina Jackson, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2010.

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• Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?

  Randy Barnett

  Justice, Doubt, President

  "BUSH DEFENDS MIERS FROM HIS OWN / THE SUPREME COURT IN TRANSITION / President's supporters rush to attack nominee as a crony lacking record and intellectual depth" by Carolyn Lochhead, www.sfgate.com. October 5, 2005.

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• When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.

  Josh Brolin

  Thinking, Average, Jail

  "Double trouble" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 30, 2008.

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