F. Lee Bailey Quotes

In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

F. Lee Bailey

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• The attitude and identity that we want to play with doesn't change.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Change
  • Attitude
  • Identity

• Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Love
  • For Him
  • Discrimination

• I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Power
  • Think
  • Globalization

• I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

  

  Rachel Johnson
  • Children
  • Think
  • Maturity

• Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Political
  • Organization

• I had an ethnic preference, if you will, for the warm weather, coming from Chennai. So I finally said, 'Look, can I move to California?' because every time I come here, it would be in the 70s or 80s, and there would be beautiful blue sky and warm.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Sky

• I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.

  

  Karen Gillan
  • Hair
  • Pink
  • Fifteen

• I think it's fine for girls to ask boys out. I actually prefer it.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Think
  • Ask
  • Actually

• Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Black
  • Comedy

• America preaches integration and practices segregation.

  

  Malcolm X
  • America
  • Segregation

• The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Courage
  • Path
  • Cancer

• I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Colors

• All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Great
  • Together
  • Inspire

• Overhead will eat you alive if not constantly viewed as a parasite to be exterminated. Never mind the bleating of those you employ. Hold out until mutiny is imminent before employing even a single additional member of staff. More startups are wrecked by overstaffing than by any other cause, bar failure to monitor cash flow.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Mind
  • Single
  • Never

• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • You
  • Talk
  • Doctor

• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Song
  • Sometimes
  • Look

• Even though the society that Marx foresaw is far from being an historical reality, Marxism has penetrated so deeply in history that we are all Marxists, one way or another, even unknowingly.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • History
  • Society
  • Reality

• Most writers have no idea how to make a film. It's a totally different skill set. Nor is it just to translate exactly what's on the page directly on to the screen - because that would be terrible. It would be five hours long, and the structure would be a mess. But the writers know the characters and the story.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Different
  • Long
  • Story

• Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, all occupation ends, and you have to deal with the enemy.

  

  Betty Williams
  • People
  • Hate
  • Peace

• Harvard is the home of American ideas.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Home
  • American
  • Ideas

• What the Bleep Do We Know was not written with a deaf person in mind, but when they met me, it clicked with them to have me in it. But that happens with a lot of actors in Hollywood, not just with me.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • Mind

• I hope my organization will not be around in 10 years, because at a national, state, and community level, we will have evolved into a society that cares about children and the need for play.

  

  Darell Hammond
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Society

• Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Attention
  • Connection
  • Breathe

• In America, an acquittal doesn't mean you're innocent, it means you beat the rap. My clients lose even when they win.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • America
  • Rap
  • Innocent