Nat Hentoff Quotes

I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

Nat Hentoff

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• As a trial lawyer, intelligence is important only in the sense that it allows you to play the game, if you will. Without it, you don't even have a ticket into the competitive arena. But beyond that, it doesn't get you very far at all.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Important
  • Game
  • Lawyer

• I'm not a natural performer or exhibitionist. When I was younger, I hated the focus, and it made me feel strange.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Me
  • Strange
  • Hated

• 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'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

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

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Trust
  • Lawyer

• The main business of a lawyer is to take the romance, the mystery, the irony, the ambiguity out of everything he touches.

  

  Antonin Scalia
  • Business
  • Lawyer

• There was a brief period in college where I flirted with the idea of becoming a lawyer because my father was one. But I was cured of it rather swiftly.

  

  Laeta Kalogridis
  • Father
  • College
  • Period

• Your attitude will go a long way in determining your success, your recognition, your reputation and your enjoyment in being a lawyer.

  

  Joe Jamail
  • Long
  • Success
  • Attitude

• I'm from a small town, and I thought I would be a lawyer.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Small
  • Lawyer

• I'll tell you who I really like - the lawyer Imran Khan. I did my dissertation on stop-and-search powers, and I put in loads of quotes from him. Years later, when I was selling insurance over in Harley Street, he rang up and asked for insurance. He told me his name, and I asked him if he was the lawyer, and he said yes.

  

  Adeel Akhtar
  • Up
  • Stop
  • Search

• There were some super-lean years, yeah. I'm six feet four. And I entered into this period all of a sudden when I was too big to play a kid and I was too young to play an adult. Like, I couldn't play the lawyer, but I couldn't play the high school kid anymore.

  

  Jason Segel
  • School
  • High
  • Period

• Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.

  

  Jeffrey Toobin
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Experience

• When I finished school, everyone wanted to go to a good university and become a lawyer or a doctor. My A-levels were sort of chosen for me.

  

  Ben Barnes
  • Good
  • School
  • Lawyer

• I toyed with the idea of pursuing a career as a lawyer just because I like to argue.

  

  Lexa Doig
  • Career
  • Lawyer

• I had aspirations to do different things with my life. I wanted to play soccer. I wanted to be a lawyer. Serendipity.

  

  Pete Wentz Fall Out Boy
  • Life
  • Different
  • Lawyer

• Throughout her career, many women would view Mrs. Clinton as an imperfect vessel for the feminist cause. She was a Yale-educated lawyer who, at the height of the 1970s women's movement, moved to Arkansas to put her own ambitions on hold in furtherance of her husband's career.

  

  Amy Chozick
  • Women
  • She
  • Career

• There are seven natural openings in the head and body. A lawyer is the only human being with eight. The extra one is a slot to store money in, should his bank be unable to hold all of it.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Money
  • Body
  • Lawyer

• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• To be honest, I don't think I'm an actor. I'm a creator - or try to be.

  

  Maximilian Schell

• In my case, I played sports my whole life. I got out of college, and I didn't bother to get health care coverage because I just figured I didn't need it. But you know that if you blow out your knee on a basketball court or you get in a car accident, and you're uninsured, it can bankrupt you.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Life
  • College
  • Health

• The kind of issues that we face as detectives are similar to what the other married couples out there are facing, or the brother and sister, or the brother and brother are facing. Relationships are universal.

  

  Michael Ealy
  • Kind
  • Couple
  • Brother

• I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Lawyer
  • Performer
  • Trapeze