Lawyer Quotes - Page 38

• 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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• Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Strong, Science

  Poor Richard's Almanack, July 1737

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• The worst enemy of good government is not our ignorant foreign voter, but our educated domestic railroad president, our prominent business man, our leading lawyer.

  John Jay Chapman

  Business, Men, Worst Enemy

  John Jay Chapman, Richard Stone (1998). “Unbought Spirit: A John Jay Chapman Reader”, p.21, University of Illinois Press

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• Send lawyers, guns, and money. Dad, get me out of this.

  Warren Zevon

  Family, Dad, Gun

  Song: Lawyers, Guns, And Money

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• Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

  Robert Cray

  Politics, Boat

  Song: Nothin' But a Woman, Album: Strong Persuader, 1986

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• The older I get, the more interesting I find lawyers and accountants.

  Alex James

  Business, Interesting, Finance

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• Sometimes film is just the family business. Some families are generations of carpenters or farmers, or they make clothes, or they're all lawyers. I'm in the family business.

  Danny Huston

  Clothes, Generations, Sometimes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As an actor, if I just did sci-fi, I think it would get limiting, like if you just play lawyers or doctors, over and over. It's a lot more fun, if you get to play lots of different types of characters.

  Tricia Helfer

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "Tricia Helfer Talks TRON: UPRISING and Her TNT Pilot SCENT OF THE MISSING". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 4, 2012.

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• The Tort Tax adds to the cost of everything we buy because businesses and manufacturers have to cover themselves and their employees - just in case they get sued by a greedy personal injury lawyer.

  Dennis Hastert

  Add, Cost, Greedy

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• There has to be some limit to what lawyers can take from their clients. Otherwise, cagey attorneys end up with the lion's share of the settlement and the victims end up with little more than scraps.

  Dennis Hastert

  Clients, Lions, Littles

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• Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.

  Thane Rosenbaum

  Law, Moral Development, Order

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• Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer.

  Lani Guinier

  Inspirational, Knowing, People

  Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin (1997). “Becoming gentlemen: women, law school, and institutional change”, Beacon Pr

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• Your lawyer is your true mercenary. Under his code honor consists in making the best possible fight in exchange for the biggest possible fee. He is frankly for sale to the highest bidder.

  David Graham Phillips

  Fighting, Honor, Fees

  David Graham Phillips (1905). “The Deluge”

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• Lawyers are like professional wrestlers. They pretend to get mad and fight, but then they socialize after a trial is over.

  Robert Whitlow

  Fighting, Mad, Trials

  Robert Whitlow (2006). “The Trial”, p.330, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The days are over when technology can be advanced in laboratories by individual scientists alone. Now you need an army of lawyers to negotiate the hazardous terrain of interlocking patents. Unless we find a solution to the problem of interlocking patents, the patent system may actually impede the very innovation it was designed to encourage.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Army, Technology, Innovation

  Ha-Joon Chang (2007). “Bad Samaritans: rich nations, poor policies, and the threat to the developing world”, Century

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• Lawyers rarely test their power, or the power they promote, against this simple pragmatic question: "Will it do good?" When challenged about the expanding reach of the law, the lawyer answers, "Why not?

  Lawrence Lessig

  Simple, Law, Why Not

  Lawrence Lessig (2004). “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity”, p.306, Penguin

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, Divorce

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• On every full moon, rituals ... take place on hilltops, beaches, in open fields and in ordinary houses. Writers, teachers, nurses, computer programmers, artists, lawyers, poets, plumbers, and auto mechanics -- women and men from many backgrounds come together to celebrate the mysteries of the Triple Goddess of the Dance of Life. The religion they practice is called Witchcraft.

  Starhawk

  Teacher, Beach, Men

  Starhawk (1999). “Spiral Dance: Slipcase”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. A pseudonym. A nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me-it's the most normal thing about my life right now. Even telling you this much probably isn't smart. But without my big mouth, no one would know that a seventeen-year-old who likes Death Cab for Cutie was responsible for the murders. No one would know that somewhere out there is a B student with a body count. And it's important that you know, so you're not next.

  Michelle Hodkin

  Smart, Years, Names

  Michelle Hodkin (2012). “The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer”, p.6, Simon and Schuster

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• Good luck finding a place to park in New York City. And when you do, good luck figuring out the parking signs, restrictions, and prohibitions. It is so complicated. It has gotten so bad, I never park my car without a lawyer.

  David Letterman

  New York, Good Luck, Cities

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• When you're an agent or a lawyer; its about service, not for yourself, but for your clients

  Arn Tellem

  Agents, Clients

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• Asian people are very practical and come from a conservative world. The parents want their kids to be doctors and lawyers. There are casting calls for Asian children, but once the parents find out the children might miss school, they're opposed to it.

  B. D. Wong

  Children, School, Kids

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• As we watched Judge Clarence
  Thomas's Supreme Court confirmation
  hearings, all of the commentators
  said the same thing: 'One of these
  people in the room is lying.' Do you
  believe that? You've got two lawyers
  and 14 senators in the room, and only
  one of them is lying?

  Jay Leno

  Lying, Believe, Two

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