David Lange Quotes
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
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People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.
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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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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.
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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'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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Art is kind of the lens through which I think about God.
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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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Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.
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Marriage is rarely bliss But, surely it would be worse As particles to pelt At thousands of miles per sec About a universe In which a lover's kiss Would either not be felt Or break the loved one's neck.
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It may be that the jury would incline to regard a practising lawyer as a man of probity whose word was prima facie worthy of belief. But the belief of lawyers in their own probity is not universally shared, and there are those who believe them to be capable of almost any chicanery or sharp practice.
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A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
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A common and not necessarily apocryphal example portrays a solo practitioner starved for business in a small town. A second lawyer then arrives, and they both prosper.
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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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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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The power of collecting money from the people is not to be rejected because it has sometimes been oppressive. Public credit is as necessary for the prosperity of a nation as private credit is for the support and wealth of a family.
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I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune.
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Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
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I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work.
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One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
