Frederick Pollock Quotes
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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One is that we stand - my two confreres and I - in some degree as representatives of a great number of fellow workers over the entire world, who are enthusiastically active in this field of ours.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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When I was designing Mrs. Obama's dress, half of me was saying, 'What would Halston do?' The other half was saying, 'Be who you are.' Halston, me, America, India - it's been such a great combination. This is what makes me who I am, with the clean lines I learned from Halston and complicated Indian over-the-top Bollywood traditions.
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In high school, a teacher once suggested that I be a math major in college. I thought, 'Me? You've got to be joking!' I mean, in junior high, I used to come home and cry because I was so afraid of my math homework. Seriously, I was terrified of math.
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Inspiration is the key to everything.
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You have to offer a product that creates an environment that captures donations, but at the end of the day, it's not the environment that draws in the money but the cause.
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Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.
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Ye have committed wickedness Against the Creator. A hundred thousand angels Are to me witnesses, Who came to conduct me After my hanging, When hanging cruelly, Myself to deliver me In heaven there was trembling When I had been hung. When I cried out Eli!
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We the U.S. think nothing…of attempting to inflict upon other peoples forms of government ill-tailored to their needs.
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Out of the air a voice without a face Proved by statistics that some cause was just In tones as dry and level as the place: No one was cheered and nothing was discussed...
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I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken.
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I can be manipulated only so many times Before even 'I love you' starts to sound like a lie.
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In the Catholic Church, especially, they go into chancery, make a clean confession, give up all, and think to start again. Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.
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For me, surfing is as close a connection I can have with Mother Nature. To surf, you're riding a pulse of energy from Mother Nature. And it's strong. It's real. It's there. And you're dancing with that. You're connecting with that. You're might be the only person in the history of the universe that connects with that particular pulse of energy.
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I accept refreshment at any hands, however lowly.
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As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work.
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If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
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No living orator would convince a grocer that coffee should be sold without chicory; and no amount of eloquence will make an English lawyer think that loyalty to truth should come before loyalty to his client.
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The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
