Franz Kafka Quotes
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As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.
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And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.
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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.
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Running for office is similar to being a trial lawyer in a very long trial. It requires adrenaline and stamina; it requires being in shape mentally and emotionally. It's a marathon.
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I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.
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I am a lawyer by profession.
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I'd say my artistic bent definitely came from my father, who was a trial lawyer. And if you're smart, you know that a trial lawyer isn't that different from an actor. He was a poet as well.
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When I was starting out, young actresses had the studio system to protect them. Now you have a host of sharks, from your agent to your publicist to your lawyer.
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I felt like I was a teacher. But nowadays, I am as much a student of his. He writes a lot of what we play.
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The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.
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When I was a young lawyer, working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.
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There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.
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Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.
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One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.
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I had originally wanted to be a lawyer. Even when I went to college and majored in engineering, I still thought I'd get a law degree. Then I started taking electrical engineering classes where I saw some of the innovation happening around computers and solid-state technology in the mid '80s.
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He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
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Latino people have come up to me and said they were motivated to become a lawyer because they saw me play one on TV - and you can't discount how great it is when they tell me I was the first.
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Gaining my education from practical experience certainly benefited me. If I had gone on to be a lawyer, my life wouldn't have been anywhere near as interesting.
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These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up.
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Remember that it is not the lawyer who knows the most law, but the one who best prepares his case, who wins.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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When I was starting out, I followed along the path that seemed to be marked out for me - from high school to college to law school to professional life.
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The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.
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A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
