Law School Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.

  Daniel R. White

  Learning, School, Years

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• The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

  David E. Kelley

  Encouragement, School, Law

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• I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.

  Julianna Margulies

  School, Sleep, Law

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• I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.

  Norman Lamm

  School, Law, Twins

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• Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?

  Mike Teti

  Country, Wall, School

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• Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

  Al Stewart

  School, Alaska, Order

  Song: License To Steal, Album: Last Days of the Century, 1988

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• In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school

  Alexandra Robbins

  Country, School, Law

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• Very few, if any, first-generation black or white or Asian kids will pursue a Ph.D. They'll pursue the professions for economic security. Many will go to law school and/or business school.

  Henry Louis Gates

  School, Kids, Law

  "Henry Louis Gates Uncovers 'Faces Of America'". "Talk of the Nation" with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. February 17, 2010.

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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Law, Found

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• I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.

  Dick Gephardt

  Kings, School, Holiday

  "Gephardt Admits Mistake on Race Issues in '70s", www.foxnews.com. January 11, 2004.

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• The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

  Scott Turow

  School, Law, Careers

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for.

  Helen Reddy

  Song, Hate, School

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• Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?

  Calvin Trillin

  Football, Sex, School

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• I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.

  George J. Mitchell

  Brother, School, Army

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• Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.

  Mara Liasson

  School, Law, Bridges

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• I worked my way through law school.

  Brian Sandoval

  School, Law, Way

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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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• I had hoped to go to law school, but the war started, and because of the strong feeling that I did not want to kill anybody, I joined the Merchant Marine when I graduated from Berkeley.

  Douglass North

  Strong, War, School

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