Law School Quotes - Page 2

• When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.

  Wentworth Miller

  Wall, School, College

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

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• And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.

  George J. Mitchell

  School, Law, Justice

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• I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.

  David Dinkins

  Jobs, Giving Up, School

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• I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School.

  Felix Frankfurter

  School, Law, Titles

  "Of Law and Life & Other Things That Matter: Papers and Addresses of Felix Frankfurter, 1956-1963". Book edited by Philip B Kurland, February 5, 1965.

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• Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.

  Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

  School, College, Law

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• The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.

  Ben Fountain

  Writing, School, Law

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• My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.

  Frank Abagnale

  School, Son, Boys

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• I don't really know why I went to law school.

  Emily Giffin

  School, Law, Knows

  "Cnn Saturday Morning News" by Randi Kaye, www.cnn.com. July 28, 2012.

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• I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy.

  Rashida Jones

  School, Law, Judging

  "Rashida Jones and Chris Pratt Talk Parks and Recreation". Interview with Brian Gallagher, www.movieweb.com. October 30, 2009.

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• Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, College, Men

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• Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humorous, School

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Does Japan”, p.25, Ballantine Books

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• I was actually going to law school in 1972.

  Frank Shorter

  Sports, School, Law

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• I could teach an eighth-grader in twenty minutes how to brief a case. Yet for all three years in most law schools the casebook method of learning the law is still in. The matriculating young lawyer is as qualified to represent a client with the education he has suffered through as a doctor who has never seen a patient, who has never held a scalpel in his hand and who learns surgery by having read text books about it and becomes skilled in surgery, if ever, after having stacked up piles of corpses who represent his pathetic learning process.

  Gerry Spence

  Book, School, Doctors

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• Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.

  Tom Udall

  School, Law, Nuclear

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• For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.

  Demetri Martin

  Summer, Home, School

  "Demetri Martin On 'Taking Woodstock'". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. August 15, 2009.

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• I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, Interesting

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, music.avclub.com. November 29, 2006.

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• I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association.

  Demetri Martin

  School, Law, President

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

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• Nothing drew me to the film business. I was propelled by the fear and anxiety of Vietnam. I had been drafted into the Marines. My brother was already serving in Vietnam. I bought, if you will, a stay of execution - both literally and figuratively - and went on to graduate school of business from the law school that I was attending.

  Peter Guber

  Brother, School, Marine

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• A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. But a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.

  Barbra Streisand

  School, Men, Law

  "The Sexism in American Politics". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 25, 2016.

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• I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything.

  George Will

  School, Cutting, Thinking

  "George Will Compares This Budget Deadlock To Past Conflicts". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. October 9, 2013.

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• I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.

  Rebel Wilson

  Drama, School, Law

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• I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.

  Warren Zevon

  School, Order, Law

  Song: Mr. Bad Example

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• My parents wanted me to go to law school.

  Sasha Alexander

  School, Law, Parent

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• Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.

  Hillary Clinton

  Life Lesson, School, Hair

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• As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then.

  David Dinkins

  School, Law, Matter

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