Courtroom Quotes - Page 4

• And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?

  Pablo Neruda

  Oblivion, Importance

  Pablo Neruda (2001). “Libro de Las Preguntas”, p.60, Copper Canyon Press

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• His victims were for the most part financial institutions who exact their revenge in courtrooms.

  Philip Russell

  Revenge, Financial, Victim

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• There was a courtroom scene where my son is convicted of killing Kevin Spacey's character. I find the bloody T-shirt and realize my husband did it. I get up the courage to take the shirt and send it to the police as evidence. I go out of the house for the first time. There was all this stuff I had to do that became quite truncated, because they slimmed down the movie. I understand the American Beauty is brilliant without all that stuff, but for me, personally, it was hard to see all that go.

  Allison Janney

  Husband, Character, Son

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted.

  Larry Flynt

  Taken, Expression, Years

  "Publisher Larry Flynt". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2011.

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• In the courtroom, watch the balance of the scalesIf the price is right, there's time for more appealsThe strings are pulled, the switch is stayedThe finest lawyers fees are paidAnd a rich man never died upon the chair

  Phil Ochs

  Men, Balance, Watches

  Song: The Iron Lady, Album: I Ain't Marching Anymore

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• The problem with every judgment of sexual behavior is that it is made by people who aren't being stimulated as they are making the judgment. A jury that sees a woman in a sterile courtroom, asks her what she wanted, and then assumes that anything else she did was the responsibility of the man is insulting not only the woman but the power of sex.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Responsibility, Men

  Warren Farrell (1994). “The myth of male power: why men are the disposable sex”

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• To the scientists of the Renaissance, your critic was really your ally, helping you advance upon reality. Critics in science are not like drama critics, determining flops and successes. Criticism to scientists is just another means of finding out whether they're wrong, like running another experiment to see if it confirms or refutes a theory. Along with the advocacy principle of the courtroom, It is one of the best ways human beings have evolved to get closer to the truth.

  Martin Seligman

  Running, Drama, Mean

  "Learned Optimism". Book by Martin Seligman, 1991.

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• The Federal Building's large Ceremonial Courtroom, reserved for show trials, is veneered in executive teak. Bench, counsel tables, jury boxes, entrances, and exits -- all are as formally arranged as an Elizabethan stage. Only the drama is shapeless, at least to those of us who have never seen a trial before. We see only random movements, sequences, comings and goings, no form or agenda apparent. To us the action is less like watching a play than watching an aquarium.

  Shana Alexander

  Drama, Aquariums, Play

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• how many times would a defendant's lawyer enter the courtroom before a session and ask each of the male clerks and paralegals around me, 'Are you the assistant in charge?' while I sat there invisible to him at the head of the table?

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Clerks, Males, Tables

  Sonia Sotomayor (2013). “My Beloved World”, Vintage

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• OJ Simpson was in a different kind of courtroom this week attempting to regain custody of his two children. In order to prove to the court how much he loves his kids, OJ pointed out quote 'Hey, they're still alive, aren't they?'

  Norm MacDonald

  Children, Kids, Two

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• I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances.

  Marcia Clark

  Missing, Trials, Appearance

  "Former O.J. prosecutor trades courtroom for crime fiction". Interview with Christian DuChateau, www.cnn.com. May 4, 2012.

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• By definition, half the people leaving the courtroom are unhappy. Any good judge can make more than half the people unhappy. The job is not to make people like you or make people think you're their friend.

  Steven Pacey

  Jobs, Thinking, Judging

  Source: www.paxtonrecord.net

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• My conscience does not render a positive verdict in God’s courtroom when I look inside myself. The only reason I can sleep well at night is that even though my heart is filled with corruption and even though I am not doing my best to please him, I have in heaven at the Father’s right hand the beloved Son, who has not only done his best for himself but has fulfilled all righteousness for me in my place.

  Michael Horton

  Father, Heart, Sleep

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• And I don't know where to find Ashley Danfield and all the other lovely commentators who show me live courtroom trials. To me, you know, I'm obsessed with it. Like I think maybe if I wasn't an actor I'd be a litigator. But, you know, it's always just shocking to see what happens in real life because most of the things that you see on those trials if you tried to write them into a TV series you would say oh gosh, no one would believe that would ever happen. But yet they always do in real life.

  Debra Messing

  Real, Believe, Writing

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and a judge I would try the Book as I would try anything in the courtroom, taking evidence for and against. It was a long, serious and profound study and using the same principles of evidence in this religious matter as I always do in secular matters, I have come to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural Book, that it has come from God, and that the only safety for the human race is to follow its teachings.

  Salmon P. Chase

  Religious, Book, Teaching

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• Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom?

  Jay Leno

  Flames, Lobbyists, Congress

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• When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair.

  Abbie Hoffman

  Hair, Long, Support

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• I'll put it this way, there was no C.P. Kennedy, there was no Dwight Dickham, we never went in the courtroom. That was the script I got. The affliction that the judge is suffering from was completely different.

  Susan Downey

  Judging, Suffering, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists.

  Gilles Deleuze

  Responsible, Notion, Psychiatrist

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• It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective.

  Robert Downey, Sr.

  Nice, Views, Perspective

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• Did you know that Nuremberg courtroom was designed so that the Allies could project movies during the trial? And, also so that they could film the trial? The first movies that were shown were prepared by John Ford - a compilation of material from the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and Dachau. But here comes an interesting part. Did you know they lit (using fluorescent tubes) the defendants so they could be filmed watching the films that were shown during the trial?

  Errol Morris

  Interesting, Allies, Dachau

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For a long time, I missed being in the courtroom every day. I missed trial work. It was so much a part of my life. It was what I did and who I was. But over the years I did find the opportunity to realize my childhood dream of writing crime fiction.

  Marcia Clark

  Dream, Writing, Opportunity

  Source: thecelebritycafe.com

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• I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance.

  Jon Ronson

  Thinking, Academia, Different

  "The complexities of the psychopath test: A Q&A with Jon Ronson". Interview with Ben Lillie, blog.ted.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

  Nancy Grace

  Violent, Wells, Prosecuting

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• To play a lawyer and have one year of law school under your belt, you sort of know what you're talking about! I'm able to memorize the legal courtroom stuff a lot faster than I would have been able to otherwise.

  Jerry O'Connell

  School, Talking, Years

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