Gerry Spence Quotes
Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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Well, Freddie Mercury is a really huge rock star in my head. I've always thought he was just so tough and such an amazing entertainer, really a contradiction in many ways as well. So he was incredible.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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They hate whom they fear.
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I got this Christmas gift with the entire Beatles catalog. I had fun trying to duplicate what I was hearing on these records, only using the instruments I had at hand - an acoustic guitar, and that's all. It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.
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I was a total fashion insider who became an outsider when I did bridal.
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So I have people who tweet and ask me, 'You can't be this happy all the time. You can't be this cheerful.' Well, yes I am. From where I've come from and my family and what I see as real struggles in day to day life, through my reporting. I'm never going to look at challenges.
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The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.
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It's very hard to get rich and famous at a young age and handle it well.
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When both parties are lying and they both know the other party's lying, it comes powerful close to being the same thing as telling the truth.
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'Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….' He turned to me. 'But every once in a while you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.'
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I think one has to regard it as a long term process. One has to remember that String theory, if you choose to date it from the Veneziano model, is already eighteen years old... that quantum electrodynamic theory towards which Planck was heading in 1900, took fifty years to emerge.
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I became a poet at the age of sixteen. I did not intend to do it. It was not my fault.
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Our goal is to really have young women of color embrace the tech marketplace and the tech innovation space as both leaders and creators.
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
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You are doing better than you think you are.
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It's obvious that St. Louis has certain advantages compared to other cities: namely, a concentration of financial services.
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I've managed to keep my clothes on for everything I've done so far.
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One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others'. My bedside is piled with books, but it's duty reading: books for book research, books for review. The ones I pine for are off on a shelf downstairs.
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
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Big stories need human stakes.
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Lawyers should be chosen because they can demonstrate a history rich in human traits, the ability to care, the courage to fight, the will to win, a concern for the human condition, a passion for justice and simple uncompromising honesty. These are the traits of the lawyer.
