Lawyer Quotes - Page 21

• Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.

  Vinny Guadagnino

  Hard Work, Want, Kind

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• I went to university for a couple of years and I didn't enjoy university. The studying and the accountancy, economics, I just hated that stuff. Now the irony is here I am lawyer, accountant, I do it all day every day and sit at a desk. So I've never ended up where I wanted to be in many ways. I always wanted to be a farmer.

  Gerry Harvey

  Couple, Years, Here I Am

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• I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a boy. One who traveled, one who never got up out of his Morris chair. Doctor, lawyer, Indian chief. I wanted shaving cream in the sink and whistling on the stairs. I wanted pants hung by their cuffs from a dresser drawer. I wanted change jingling in a pocket and the sound of ice cracking in a cocktail glass at five thirty. I wanted to hear my mother laugh behind a closed door.

  Judy Blundell

  Mother, Father, Boys

  Judy Blundell (2010). “What I Saw and How I Lied”, p.61, Scholastic Inc.

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• This matter is in litigation. All of you know lawyers. They are adamant that you don't say anything.

  Connie Chung

  Say Anything, Matter, Adamant

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• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've gotta face that was meant for a mug shot and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years. If I play a cop, it's always a racist cop, or a trigger-happy cop or a crooked cop - but by and large I play cowboys, bikers, and convicts.

  M. C. Gainey

  Cowboy, Past, Years

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

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• I have a problem with censorship by the lawyer - by legal people by the publishing firm, and I may be changing publishers. They don't seem to want to take too many risks with living people.

  Kenneth Anger

  People, Risk, May

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• The music rights at the time cost me $12,000 in 1964 money, which is about double now or whatever. But I cleared everything. I had a lawyer in New York. And it was cleared for use in a short subject, not a feature.

  Kenneth Anger

  New York, Rights, Cost

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• Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

  Alexei Sayle

  Alive, Used, Stills

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

  W. C. Fields

  Eight, Body, Seven

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• Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Children, War, Crime

  Joe Abercrombie (2009). “Last Argument Of Kings: The First Law: Book Three”, p.490, Hachette UK

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• There's a whole generation that's retiring. It is unconscionable that the average salary of a lawyer is $79,000 a year and the average salary of a teacher is $39,000 a year.

  John McCain

  Teacher, Average, Years

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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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• Lawyers hold that there are two kinds of particularly bad witnesses--a reluctant witness, and a too-willing witness.

  Charles Dickens

  Two, Kind, Witness

  Charles Dickens (1842). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club: In 2 Vol”, p.82

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• The Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

  John Marshall Harlan

  Class, Equality Under The Law, Liberty

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• The acme of judicial distinction means the ability to look a lawyer straight in the eyes for two hours and not hear a damned word he says.

  John Marshall

  Mean, Eye, Two

  Quoted in Albert J. Beveridge, Life of John Marshall (1919)

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• After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

  John Grisham

  Years, Fiction, Six

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", www.cnn.com. December 9, 2011.

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• Your religious beliefs are your business. They are not and should not be the basis for law. If you use them as justification to discriminate against others, don't be upset when others decide you're an asshole.

  Jim C. Hines

  Religious, Law, Upset

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• Lawyers on TV always tell their clients not to say anything. The cops say that thing: 'Anything you say will be used against you.' Self-incrimination. I looked it up. Three-point vocab word. So why does everyone makes such a big hairy deal about me not talking? Maybe I don't want to incriminate myself. Maybe I don't like the sound of my voice. Maybe I don't have anything to say.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Self, Talking, Voice

  Laurie Halse Anderson (1999). “Speak”, Puffin

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• One minute I'm robbing a dope house. Next minute I'm the youngest heavyweight champion of the world. I'm only 20, 19, with a lot of money. Who am I? What am I? I don't even know who I am. I'm just a dumb child who's being abused and robbed by lawyers. I'm just a dumb pugnacious fool. I'm just a fool who thinks he's someone. Then you tell me I should be responsible.

  Mike Tyson

  Children, Dope, Thinking

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• I'm against an income tax because all the rich people hire lawyers and accountants to be sure that they don't pay income tax.

  Ann Richards

  People, Income, Pay

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• Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.

  Dale Dauten

  People, Knocking, Linebackers

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• Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and-most unforgivably-increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

  Norman Finkelstein

  Law, Justice, Risk

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• Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Public Speaking, Should, Avenues

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “Speeches and Letters of Abraham Lincoln(1832-1865) (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)”, p.50, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Well, I guess most people would only know me from The O.C. I did a few episodes of Gilmore Girls before that. I was also a client on a lot of lawyer shows.

  Adam Brody

  Girl, People, Judging

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• A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues.

  Archibald Cox

  College, Thinking, Issues

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