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

• A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."

  

  Franz Kafka
  • Lawyer
  • Writes
  • Brief

• When you're on Earth, if you go to the top of a mountain, the stars look much brighter than they do at sea level. And because the space shuttle is above Earth's atmosphere, it's like being on a very, very high mountain. So they look brighter, but not bigger.

  

  Sally Ride
  • High
  • Earth
  • Space

• Too many times, adults walk into situations, and people have already put them in a box: 'Oh, you write comedy.' Or, 'You're the development woman.' And it's not just our profession. It's hard to look at someone and say, 'What else is inside?'

  

  Anne Sweeney
  • People
  • Comedy

• Nature is also great fun. To pretend that nature isn't fun is to miss much of the joy of being alive.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Fun
  • Nature

• 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