Law School Quotes - Page 4

• Maybe I'm too close to the two Democrats to be against either one. I went to law school with Barack Obama and worked in the Clinton White House, so I have connections and allegiances to both candidates. [...] But I cannot remain silent any longer while my own senator destroys the Democratic Party, and her own reputation, in a desperate and degrading effort to appeal to the lowest common denominator. It's time for Senator Clinton to act like a leader that I know she can be. Hillary Clinton not only needs to defend Barack Obama, she needs to apologize to him.

  Keith Boykin

  Party, School, White

  "Clinton Owes Obama An Apology" by Keith Boykin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 26, 2008.

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• I'm always telling my students go to law school or become a doctor, do something, and then write. First of all you should have something to write about, and you only have something to write about if you do something.

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Writing, School, Doctors

  "Jamaica Kincaid: Does Truth Have a Tone?". Interview with Lauren K. Alleyne, www.guernicamag.com. June 17, 2013.

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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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• I'm always composing and trying to learn more about the business. In today's market, it's more important than ever to be self-sufficient as an artist. I am in law school and that has helped me in so many ways. It's cool to know what I'm signing and I hope to be able to advise other artists.

  Antoniette Costa

  School, Artist, Self

  Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics.

  Robert Reich

  School, Yale, Law

  "American Experience", www.pbs.org.

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• I tried to talk to the graduates who haven't figured what they're going to do next. The kids who are heading in medical school or law school, they've got pretty much figured where they're headed in life. But there are so many kids out there, that are just going, they're still kids. They've always been promoted from grade to grade.

  Chris Matthews

  School, Kids, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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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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• I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.

  Constance Baker Motley

  School, Law, Found

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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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• After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.

  Alphonso Jackson

  Jobs, School, Years

  "The Business of Government Hour" with Paul Lawrence, www.businessofgovernment.org. May 19, 2003.

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• My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?

  Emanuel Celler

  Father, Wine, School

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• At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.

  James McGreevey

  School, Law, Ideas

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• One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.

  Adrian Cronauer

  School, Law, Aggravation

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

  Norman Lamm

  School, Law, Twins

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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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• 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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• 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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• Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.

  Robert Kennedy

  Heart, School, Law

  Robert F. Kennedy (1964). “Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy”

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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 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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• 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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• 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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