F. Lee Bailey Quotes

A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

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• I'm cranky.

  

  Larry David
  • Cranky

• Tackling affordable housing via land use planning won't necessarily solve the problem.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Problem
  • Planning
  • Housing

• All my life, the naysayers have told me that I can't win because I'm a progressive... because I'm a woman... even because I'm a lesbian.

  

  Tammy Baldwin
  • Life
  • Woman
  • Win

• For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Free
  • Imagination
  • Someone

• Ignorance and prejudice make for bad advisers.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Bad
  • Ignorance
  • Prejudice

• You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Time
  • Want
  • Clock

• Shoes make an outfit; they're like rims for a car.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Car
  • Shoes
  • Outfit

• I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Grandparents
  • Ashamed
  • Slaves

• The First Amendment applies to rogues and scoundrels. You don't lose your First Amendment rights because of a sleazy personality, or even for having committed a crime. Felons in jail are protected by the First Amendment.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Personality
  • Lose
  • Rights

• It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Without
  • Furniture
  • Imagery

• I feel very lucky to get to fly the flag of RCA Records and Sony Music.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Fly
  • Lucky

• I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • You
  • Always
  • Naked

• I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the first time, and I scratched 80 miles from Nome the second time. You can read about my experience in the race in my books 'Woodsong' and 'Winterdance.'

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Race

• The goal of NIH research is to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diagnose, and treat disease and disability, from the rarest genetic disorder to the common cold.

  

  Ike Skelton
  • Help
  • Knowledge
  • Goal

• Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • People
  • Country
  • Energy

• Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Yourself
  • Healing
  • Moving On

• We were making new ones the second year. We were in syndication the second year. So we were on Saturday nights, prime time, every morning, and then they put it on Sunday evenings too. So it was all over the place.

  

  Gavin MacLeod
  • Time
  • Morning
  • Year

• We excuse our sloth under the pretext of difficulty.

  

  Quintilian
  • Difficulty
  • Sloth
  • Pretext

• You may batter your way through the thick of the fray, You may sweat, you may swear, you may grunt; You may be a jack-fool, if you must, but this rule Should ever be kept at the front;-- Don't fight with your pillow, but lay down your head And kick every worriment out of the bed.

  

  Edmund Vance Cooke
  • Rule
  • Worries
  • Kick

• I think it's an extremely important factor to have your team together. It goes back to having distractions. When you all stay together for a period of time you're not training people or feeling out different personalities.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Night
  • Heaven

• 'Into The Wild' had a great sense of wild, unpredictable freedom that I loved, and 'Unforgiven' is just a great western with characters that walked the line between right/wrong with an ambiguity that felt very true to frontier life.

  

  Brendan Fletcher
  • Life
  • Great
  • True

• Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Life
  • Great
  • Live

• A person in the business of defending criminal cases is going to live in controversy all of his or her life.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Life
  • Live
  • Business