Lawyer Quotes - Page 32

• Lawyers work hard and, like us, they're human, many of them.

  Dick Cavett

  Hard Work, Humans, Hard

  Dick Cavett (2010). “Talk Show: Confrontations, Pointed Commentary, and Off-Screen Secrets”, p.33, Macmillan

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• One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer and the next minute I was in parliament.

  David Lang

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• I had a 2-week courtship with a fellow student in the fiction workshop in Iowa and a 5-minute wedding in a lawyer's office above the coffee shop where we'd been having lunch that day. And so I sent a cable to my father saying, 'By the time you get this, Daddy, I'll already be Mrs. Blaise!'

  Bharati Mukherjee

  Father, Coffee, Iowa

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• My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

  Rush Limbaugh

  College, People, Proud

  "Rush Limbaugh Gives Sean a Rare Interview". "Hannity & Colmes" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. October 18, 2005.

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• I look forward to a time when lawyers aren't in the top three calls every day, and all you care about is how your kids are doing in school or what the weather's like and the great day you had with your family.

  Lance Armstrong

  School, Kids, Weather

  Interview with Dan Roan, www.bbc.com. January 26, 2015.

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• What you leave at your death, let it be without controversy, else the lawyers will be your heirs.

  Frances Osborne

  Heirs, Controversy

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• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  Richard Grossman

  Law, Class, Community

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• I got a Swede lawyer?!? She's gonna get everything!

  Larry David

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• A lawyer is basically a mouth, like a shark is a mouth attached to a long gut. The business of lawyers is to talk, to interrupt one another, and to devour each other if possible.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sharks, Long, Mouths

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• It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

  Lloyd Cutler

  Argument, Responsible, Made

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• Dozens of America's wealthiest taxpayers - including hedge fund legend Michael Steinhardt, super trial lawyer Guy Saperstein, and Ben Cohen of Ben & Jerry's fame - have appealed to President Obama not to renew the Bush tax cuts for anyone earning more than $1 million a year.

  Joe Conason

  Cutting, Years, America

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• On January 10, 1963, I was sworn in as a lawyer, so next January 10 I will have practiced law for 40 years, and I've loved every minute of it.

  Johnnie Cochran

  Years, Law, Next

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• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  P. Chidambaram

  School, Leader, India

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• My taxes alone keep eight lawyers busy, and when I finally get my money, its only one-third of what I earn. With the kids in school and my other responsibilities, I get no change back from the first million dollars. The money flows out like water.

  Robert Shaw

  School, Kids, Responsibility

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• I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Kids, Justice, Acting

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• Lawyers are a prudent race though not very fond of liberty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Race, Liberty, Prudent

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.413, Harvard University Press

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• I didn't really want to be an actor when I was growing up - I wanted to be whatever I was reading about or seeing at the time. When I read The Firm I wanted to be a lawyer; when I saw Top Gun, I wanted to be a fighter pilot. So that's why acting probably turned out to be a good thing for me because I get to be people for five minutes or 90 minutes. I'd be curious to see if I had the attention span to be like those guys on 30 Rock and play the same character season after season.

  Jason Sudeikis

  Growing Up, Reading, Character

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• If businesses don't know from state to state what the requirements are for taxes, they have to waste a lot of money on accountants and lawyers before deciding to expand their business into the state next door.

  Bob Goodlatte

  Doors, Requirements, Waste

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• Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows... I think there could be room for two quite different examinations of the same political office.

  Geena Davis

  Thinking, Two, Numbers

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• I wanted to be a leading man - the black lawyer, the black doctor, the black policeman.

  David Alan Grier

  Men, Doctors, Black

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• I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

  Lexa Doig

  Careers, Ideas, Arguing

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• Lawyers-a profession it is to disguise matters.

  Thomas More

  Inspirational, Matter, Disguise

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• With the exception of lawyers, there is no profession which, considers itself above the law so widely as the medical profession.

  Samuel Hopkins Adams

  Law, Physicians, Medical Profession

  The Health Master Ch. 1

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• But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Writing, Hands, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote”, p.214, Collector's Library

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• But the mere truth won't do. You must have a lawyer.

  Charles Dickens

  Law, Mere

  "Bleak House".

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