John George Nicolay Quotes

While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

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• Getting more and more of our news from the social network is having significant repercussions for markets - and your money.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Money
  • News
  • Significant

• And unless you think there is a serious chance you're going to jail, don't listen to your lawyer.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Serious
  • Chance
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • School
  • High
  • Science

• When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Leader

• I was told there would be riots in the streets, but there were no riots.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Would
  • Streets
  • Riots

• 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.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Long
  • Running
  • Lawyer

• I've never worked on a lawyer show for a long time, but I imagine the actors all start acting like lawyers.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Time
  • Long
  • Start

• I am a lawyer by profession.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Lawyer
  • Profession

• 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.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Different
  • Father
  • Smart

• Lasker mouthed, 'Trust him,' and Max sighed. Trust a lawyer? It flew in the face of his most cherished principles.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trust
  • Lawyer

• 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.

  

  Lawyer
  • Business
  • Small
  • Lawyer

• One woman told me that every time she wears Lanvin, men fall in love with her. Another told me she wore Lanvin to face her husband's lawyer because she felt protected. If I can make men fall in love with women and if I can protect women, I think I can die peacefully.

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Time
  • Men
  • Women

• I have never wanted to be a politician, and I never had the desire until recently.

  

  Doug Hoffman
  • Desire

• The genesis of Donald Trump's relationship with Paul Manafort begins with Roy Cohn. That Roy Cohn: Joe McCarthy's heavy-lidded henchman, lawyer to the Genovese family. During the '70s, Trump and his father hired Cohn as their lawyer to defend the family against a housing discrimination suit.

  

  Franklin Foer
  • Family
  • Father
  • Relationship

• He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

  

  Charles Lamb
  • Lawyer

• I studied to be a lawyer, and after that I did something, obviously, completely different. With change, you learn something. If you do the same thing over and over again, you never learn anything.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Different
  • Lawyer

• I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after.

  

  Lisa Scottoline
  • Lawyer
  • Divorce

• I played a lawyer once, and I had about three or four weeks before we shot, so I was able to go to court and watch lawyers at work. Some were good lawyers and some were bad lawyers, but it was essential. The more time you have to prepare, the better. Always.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acting as a career. Everyone in my family went to university - my older brother is a lawyer - but when they saw me for the first time at the theatre, they thought, "OK". They like it very much now.

  

  Caterina Murino
  • Brother
  • Acting
  • Theatre

• And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Shopping

• What 'jazz' means to me is the worst kind of working conditions, the worst in cultural prejudice. The term 'jazz' has come to mean the abuse and exploitation of black musicians.

  

  Maxim Gorky
  • Black
  • Abuse

• Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Never
  • Car
  • Need

• Television is not like making records. I wanna tell all you kids, do not try this at home, 'cause it's hard. It takes a lot of hard work, a lot of practice, and a lot of different takes.

  

  Master P
  • Work
  • Different
  • Home

• While Lincoln thus became a lawyer, he did not cease to remain a politician.

  

  John George Nicolay
  • Lawyer