Johnnie Cochran Quotes

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

Johnnie Cochran

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• On Earth, men are seen as superior because of their physical strength, but it means nothing in space, where there is no gravity.

  

  Yi So-Yeon
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Space

• We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Feelings
  • Emotional
  • See

• Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Different
  • Single
  • Day

• So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Long
  • Women
  • Past

• We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Mistake

• My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Business
  • Friends
  • Doing

• Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Poetry
  • Synthesis
  • Biscuits

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Freedom
  • Ideas
  • Vision

• Music is about the performance.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Performance
  • About

• I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Believe
  • Find
  • Jazz

• I'm obsessed with cooking! I want a degree in the culinary arts!

  

  Kat Graham
  • Want
  • Cooking
  • Arts

• It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Dark
  • Very
  • Southern

• Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Remember
  • Problem
  • Back

• The power that is supported by force alone will have cause often to tremble.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Power
  • Alone
  • Will

• I'll talk about these things, but it's just, you know, you only get so much time and I'm much more interested in what I'm going to be doing next year than in something I did 10 years ago.

  

  Walter Hill
  • Time
  • Know
  • Year

• Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Learn
  • Need

• I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Responsibility

• When I first came in the business, I had a couple of close calls on planes going to London for shows. There was one time where the plane had to fly around until a storm ended, and then we started having a question about fuel, so we had to go through the storm. It was the worst thing that ever happened in my life. That really messed me up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• It's nice if people can finally loosen up a little bit and just go out laugh at silliness. I mean, people take themselves way too seriously sometimes.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• Princess Diana was a nice dancer because she had confidence. In fact, when we danced together she started to lead, and I looked her in eye and went, 'No, you have to let me lead.' So I grabbed her around the waist and we were off to the races.

  

  John Travolta
  • She
  • Together
  • Nice

• Such is the compassion, such the love which Mary bears us, that she is never tired of praying for us.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Love
  • Tired
  • Compassion

• Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice.

  

  Johnnie Cochran
  • Nice
  • Compassion