Elizabeth Edwards Quotes
I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
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I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.
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Even if I have to stand alone, I will not be afraid to stand alone. I'm going to fight for you. I'm going to fight for what's right. I'm going to fight to hold people accountable.
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Somebody who was born in this country who visited China would later face difficulty getting back in to the USA. We have to keep in mind that the struggles of the Chinese against these exclusion laws really laid down the foundations of civil rights law.
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For me, I've been known as a very well-rounded fighter, and I think that's really important, that you're well rounded and comfortable in every situation that a fight can go. A lot of people focus on just one discipline, and when they get out of that, they're in a difficult position.
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When I came back to India after Harvard Business School, I started as a lawyer and as a trade union leader.
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What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation.
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.
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I worked my way up in the private sector and implemented Georgia's tough voter ID law.
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Judges rule on the basis of law, not public opinion, and they should be totally indifferent to pressures of the times.
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When you deprive people of their right to live in dignity, to hope for a better future, to have control over their lives, when you deprive them of that choice, then you expect them to fight for these rights.
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I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
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I don't love to fight; I don't want to fight.
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I always took a fight; I always took everybody. I fought everybody.
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This is not a trial. This is a lynching. There is no law.
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In law, nothing is certain but the expense.
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Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation.
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I was in the trade field as White House fellow in the first Bush administration.
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I love that place where you get in running where you're just never out of breath and you just feel like you could go forever. I love that. I love feeling strong.
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One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
