Attorney Quotes

• I busted a mirror and got seven years bad luck. But my lawyer thinks he can get me five.

  Steven Wright

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

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

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• No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

  Scott Stapp

  Mistake, Soon Enough, Office

  "No Charges for Scott Stapp's Public Drunkenness at Airport". www.foxnews.com. March 10, 2006.

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• Most of the time when I receive a script, it says something like 'Rosenberg is the fat, slovenly Mayor, who doesn't want the kids to use the Skateboard Park,' or 'Stein is a pompous, rotund attorney, imposing to all.' It would be so freeing to get a script where my character is simply described as 'A Man.'

  Fred Melamed

  Character, Kids, Men

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

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• The defendant wants to hide the truth because he's generally guilty. The defense attorney's job is to make sure the jury does not arrive at that truth.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Jobs, Justice, Doe

  "U.S. News & World Report", August 9, 1982.

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• The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

  Harold H. Greene

  Morning, Trying, Evening

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• My father is a practicing criminal law attorney in the Seattle area.

  David Guterson

  Father, Law, Criminals

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• I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past, it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

  Judy Holliday

  Past, Names, Organization

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• A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

  Patrick Murray

  Funny, Winning, Lawyer

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• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  Charles Lamb

  Law, Two Sides, Feet

  Charles Lamb (1848). “Final Memorials of Charl. Lamb; Consisting Chiefly of His Letters Not Before Published, with Sketches of Some of His Companions: By Thom. Noon Talfourd”, p.108

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• I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

  Kathie Lee Gifford

  Hate, Agents, Deals

  Kathie Lee Gifford, Jim Jerome (1993). “I Can't Believe I Said That!: An Autobiography”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Usually when attorneys are assembling a jury, they're just looking for sheep that are easily impressed.

  Johnny Kelly

  Sheep, Jury, Assembling

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• So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Judging, Favors, Economy

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• Especially in local elections, because hardly anybody pays attention to those - but it's really important who's mayor and who's on the city council, county commissioners, sheriffs, district attorney, and of course the school board.

  Jello Biafra

  School, Cities, Important

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• As attorney general, Ive had some connection with just about every important public issue in the last eight years in Kentucky. All of the important public issues of the day have, at some point.

  Ben Chandler

  Eight, Kentucky, Years

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• And while I might not always agree with the viewpoint I have to portray, because I play a district attorney, as an actress I can always tell myself that my character is trying to take the moral high ground.

  Lara Flynn Boyle

  Character, Moral High Ground, Play

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• Given my last position, that I was the first U.S attorney post 9/11 in New Jersey, I understand acutely the pain and sorrow and upset of the family members who lost loved ones that day at the hands of radical Muslim extremists. And their sensitivities and concerns have to be taken into account.

  Chris Christie

  Pain, Taken, Hands

  "Christie: Both sides playing politics, don't paint all Muslims as 'radical'". www.politico.com. August 16, 2010.

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• If you violate Nature's laws you are your own prosecuting attorney, judge, jury, and hangman.

  Luther Burbank

  Law, Judging, Environmental

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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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• My father and his brothers were all lawyers, so I think that the expectation was probably for me to grow up to be an attorney, but it never really fascinated me that much. I was more interested in building things.

  Steve Case

  Brother, Growing Up, Father

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• Painters were also attorneys, happy storytellers of anecdote, psychologists, botanists, zoologists, archaeologists, engineers, but there were no creative painters.

  Kazimir Malevich

  Creative, Zoologist, Anecdotes

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• Prior to any questioning, the person must be warned that he has a right to remain silent, that any statement he does make may be used as evidence against him and that he has a right to the presence of an attorney, either retained or appointed.

  Earl Warren

  Doe, May, Silent

  Miranda v. Arizona (1966)

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• The sharp employ the sharp; verily, a man may be known by his attorney.

  Douglas William Jerrold

  Men, May, Known

  Douglas William Jerrold, Blanchard Jerrold (1859). “Specimens of Douglas Jerrold's wit: together with selections, chiefly from his contributions to journals, intended to illustrate his opinions”, p.140

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• I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

  Jeff Gannon

  Believe, I Believe, Retainers

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• Make crime pay. Become a lawyer.

  Will Rogers

  Humor, Feet, Law Students

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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