Lawyer Quotes - Page 37

• Listen, we all have to agree that there is too much litigation going on in this world. But every year it seems to multiply tenfold. Why can't we stop it? Well, it's because the lawmakers in Congress and the Senate are almost all lawyers, too!

  James Belushi

  Years, World, Too Much

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• When I first saw a Fellini movie, I came out of the movie theatre and decided to become a lawyer! I thought to myself, it's impossible to make something so beautiful!

  Roberto Benigni

  Beautiful, Theatre, Saws

  "Benigni interviewed by Adrian Wootton". Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 1998.

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• And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

  Scott Bakula

  Trials, Grew, Performing

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• With all due respect to lawyers, it's wonderful that you have this intricate knowledge. You break down words to the nth degree. And sometimes I find it rather disgusting. And it goes on and on.

  Sonny Bono

  Degrees, Goes On, Sometimes

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• Incidentally, Boies, I'm sure, is a very fine lawyer.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Fine

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• I'm a trained lawyer, after all, so I don't have to admit to anything.

  Clive Anderson

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mother, Teacher, Queens

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• I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

  Floyd Abrams

  Book, Writing, Had Enough

  "First Amendment Attorney Floyd Abrams Talks with CFIF’s Corporate Counsel About Three Decades of Free Speech". "Your Turn - Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. June 15, 2005.

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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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• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  Samuel Dash

  Perception, Needs, Ease

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• If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.

  Billy Eckstine

  College, Doctors, Musician

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• I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.

  Alex Flinn

  Years, Law, Different

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• Boulez seemed to me to be a guy who wrote laws. Like a company lawyer.

  Luc Ferrari

  Law, Guy, Company

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• We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Thinking, Views, Talking

  "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. July 26, 2005.

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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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• I'm unique for a suspense author in that I don't have a specialty background. A lot of suspense writers used to be lawyers or crime beat reporters. I didn't even know a cop when I started out. I finally figured out that I could visit prisons - I just had to be willing to make the phone calls.

  Lisa Gardner

  Unique, Phones, Suspense

  "Cosmo's Book Club: Meet Your Next Must-Read". Interview with Gabrielle Frank, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 9, 2010.

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• Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.

  Matt Gonzalez

  Running, Believe, Issues

  "All Hope is Local: Quit Whining and Run for Office" by Allison Kilkenny, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 2, 2008.

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• Thomas More's birth was noted by his father upon a blank page at the back of a copy of Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia Regum Britanniae'; for a lawyer John More was remarkably inexact in his references to that natal year, and the date has been moved from 1477 to 1478 and back again.

  Peter Ackroyd

  Father, Years, Pages

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• Lawyers have a dangerous job in Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Jobs, Iran, Dangerous

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• A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.

  Joni Mitchell

  Reality, Littles, Easy

  Song: The Three Great Stimulants, Album: Dog Eat Dog

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• A suffering world cries for mercy, as far as the eye can see. Lawyers around every bend in the road, lawyers in every tree.

  Tom Paxton

  Eye, Reality, Tree

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• I got ex's all across the country and I owe everybody in town. I got bill collectors a callin' me up, and lawyers trying to track me down.

  George Strait

  Country, Reality, Track

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• With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.

  Bob Dylan

  Book, Scott Fitzgerald, Crooks

  Song: Ballad of a Thin Man, Album: Highway 61 Revisited, 1965

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