Scott Bakula Quotes

Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

Scott Bakula

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• As for lawyers, it's more fun to play one than to be one.

  

  Sam Waterston
  • Fun
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Bad
  • Lawyers

• I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Lost
  • Case
  • Lawyers

• We are Americans. We - we - we are - we are doctors. We are investment bankers. We are taxi drivers. We are store keepers. We are lawyers. We are - we are part of the fabric of America. And the way that America today treats its Muslims is being watched by over a billion Muslims worldwide.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • America
  • Today
  • Lawyers

• To some lawyers, all facts are created equal.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • Facts
  • Legal
  • Lawyers

• Our first concern is the security of the lawyers because without security you can't possibly have a fair trial, if trial at all, and that's not been adequately attended to.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • You
  • Security
  • Lawyers

• In Palm Springs, they think homelessness is caused by bad divorce lawyers.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Divorce

• If white people need colleges to furnish teachers, ministers, lawyers, and doctors, do black people need nothing of the sort?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Black
  • Lawyers

• He's been very, very competitive. Some people are born to be accountants and lawyers. Some are born to be quarterbacks. And he was. He's very tough. We gave him an award this week for being tough. He's a tremendous competitor.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • People
  • Lawyers
  • Competitor

• In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.

  

  Eleanor Smeal
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Lawyers

• I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Up
  • Home
  • War

• From the law firm's perspective, billing by the hour has a certain appeal: it shifts risk from the firm to the client in case the work takes longer than expected. But from a client's perspective, it doesn't work so well. It gives lawyers an incentive to overstaff and to overresearch cases.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Work
  • Law
  • Risk

• There certainly is an affinity between a person and his work, but it is not easy to define what this affinity is, and on that question many judge quite wrongly.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Persons
  • Easy
  • Judging

• I don't know that person anymore, that guy in '86, '87. I don't know that guy no more. I don't have no affinity for that guy no more. I have no affinity for the guy who said, 'I am the greatest fighter God produced.' I have no affinity for the guy who said he would try to push his [opponent's] nose bone up into his brain. I just don't know that guy. I don't know who he is. I don't know where he came from. I don't have no kind of connection with him no more.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • God
  • Produced
  • Affinity

• Beware of lawyers and consultants and people who do not take risks and who do not get their hands dirty.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • People
  • Lawyers
  • Beware

• Lawyers are shy of meddling with the Law on their own account: knowing it to be an edged tool of uncertain application, very expensive in the working, and rather remarkable for its properties of close shaving than for its always shaving the right person.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Working
  • Knowing
  • Lawyers

• We lawyers are always curious, always inquisitive, always picking up odds and ends for our patchwork minds, since there is no knowing when and where they may fit into some corner.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Knowing
  • Minds
  • Lawyers

• How will a person know, Selina, when the soul that has the affinity with hers is near it?" She answered, "She will know. Does she look for air, before she breathes it? This love will be guided to her; and when it comes, she will know. And she will do anything to keep that love about her, then. Because to lose it will be like a death to her.

  

  Sarah Waters
  • Soul
  • Air
  • Persons

• Legal business has, from the beginning of time, been profitable - to those who have conducted it; because it is concerned with things that touch men's passions very deeply, and because men are willing to pay, and pay highly, for wisdom and skill in the conduct of it. The real merits of the Norman lawyers were, not altruism, but ability, energy, and enthusiasm for their work.

  

  Edward Jenks
  • Business
  • Energy
  • Wisdom

• Every uneducated person is a caricature of himself.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Person
  • Himself
  • Uneducated

• I don't belong to any country clubs. I don't have this big circle of friends. Where I make my friends is where I work.

  

  G. W. Bailey
  • Work
  • Country
  • Friends

• Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Passion
  • Focus
  • Skill

• The difficulties in the study of the infinite arise because we attempt, with our finite minds, to discuss the infinite, assigning to it those properties which we give to the finite and limited; but this... is wrong, for we cannot speak of infinite quantities as being the one greater or less than or equal to another.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Study
  • Minds
  • Properties

• Ive always had an affinity for lawyers. My dad is a lawyer. Hes retired now. My brother is a lawyer.

  

  Scott Bakula
  • Lawyers
  • Affinity