David Boies Quotes

Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

David Boies

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• There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Parents
  • Marriage
  • Struggle

• I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • City
  • Fashion
  • Year

• For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Me
  • Space
  • Myself

• You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • Together
  • Want

• When I was 14, I decided that I really wanted to pursue polo more, so I asked my parents if it would be okay for me to go live on a farm outside the city so I could play.

  

  Nacho Figueras
  • Live
  • Parents
  • City

• I started writing when I started acting professionally because, with acting, there's so much time when you're not working, and there's so much rejection and so little you have control of. Writing is something that you can do, and no one can tell you not to.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Control

• I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• It's important for whoever is governor to be somebody with a breadth of experience in life, in business, and in service.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Life
  • Important
  • Business

• Jack Nicklaus is the greatest winner I've ever seen.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Greatest
  • Winner
  • Seen

• I discovered that men were just like everyone else, really. They liked you if you were good-tempered and easy to talk to. And being a big girl meant other females trusted you more and confided in you.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Good
  • Men
  • Girl

• There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.

  

  Edmund White
  • People
  • True
  • Vision

• Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Single
  • Perspective
  • Distance

• Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.

  

  James Madison
  • Life
  • Political
  • Wish

• They called him Moishe the Beadle, as if his entire life he had never had a surname.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Life

• I didn't want my parents to support me. I wanted to prove that I could do it by myself.

  

  Linda Vester
  • Parents
  • Support

• You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

  

  Jam Master Jay
  • Eyes

• I felt only as a man can feel who is roaming over the prairies of the far West, well armed, and mounted on a fleet and gallant steed.

  

  Buffalo Bill

• The only thing I focus on is just winning. Once we win, everyone remembers a winner. That's what I'm focused on.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Focus
  • Winning

• You need the commitment of people that aren't worried about that next election, who are going to do the right thing and worry about the next generation. It's called political courage. And I can tell you, with me, you don't have to ask whether I have political courage.

  

  Jeff Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Political
  • Worry

• Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don't know.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Black
  • Best
  • Black-and-white

• When I was a little boy, Marvin Hagler was my idol. He got no respect for most of his career. His fighting style was straight ahead. He took every shot thrown at him, and he kept punching back 'til he won. I honestly feel that's how I am. I take big shots from people. But I keep going.

  

  James Frey
  • People
  • Career
  • Respect

• But you base everything on people you know.

  

  Gena Rowlands
  • People

• Luckily, eating healthy and exercise are activities I enjoy, but I still like to indulge every now and then. I don't deprive myself, but I'm thoughtful about my choices.

  

  Miranda Kerr
  • Exercise
  • Eating
  • Thoughtful

• Once I take a case, I'm stuck with it.

  

  David Boies