Lawyer Quotes
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My mother was a Northern woman, daughter of Hon. John Sergeant, a distinguished lawyer, and for many years representative in Congress from Philadelphia.
John Sergeant Wise
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Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.
Eva Longoria
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I was a lawyer for about ten years. The law teaches one to see things from all different angles.
Alex Flinn
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There are some lawyers who think of themselves as basically instruments of whoever their clients are, and they pride themselves on their professional craft
Cass Sunstein
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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.
John Grisham
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They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.
Thomas More
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There are lawyers advising to sue, so the lawyers can keep their retainments.
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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Lawyers know how to take isolated complaints in a divorce case and build them into one big one.
Hedy Lamarr
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I've never wanted to be a doctor, I've never wanted to be an engineer, I've never had that goal, but when you're around people who are successful, you kind of feel some type of way like, I don't want to be a doctor or lawyer but I do want to be successful.
Eric Thomas
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Drugs is a society problem. It ain't just isolated to sports or entertainment. There's people that are doing brain surgeries that probably have dabbled in drugs. There may be some, judges and lawyers involved in the case could have been involved. So it's a problem in all society.
Dave Parker
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One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
David Lange
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If I had forty wives in the United States, they did not know it, and could not substantiate it, neither did I ask any lawyer, judge, or magistrate for them. I live above the law, and so do this people.
Brigham Young
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If there's no deals being made rappers, what happens to the lawyers. They've got to close their firms, they can't make no money. How can they make money from the client now? Litigation!
Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Achozen
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When Thurgood Marshall became a lawyer, race relations in the United States were particularly bad.
Constance Baker Motley
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You get a lawyer whether you're in a military tribunal or whether you're in a federal court, number one. The attorney general decided that the court with the biggest - with the greatest venue, with the best jurisdiction was the New York court. That was the right decision to make.
Joe Biden
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Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.
John C. Reilly
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I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.
Sandra Bullock
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I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age.
Johnnie Cochran
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It is a horrible demoralizing thing to be a lawyer. You look for such low motives in everyone and everything.
Katharine Tynan
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I grew up on a ranch in Walla Walla, Washington. Except for one lawyer, I don't remember anyone in my family being anything else but ranchers.
Adam West
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Choose your agent as carefully as you would choose your accountant or lawyer. Or dentist.
Russell Banks
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As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock.
John Roger Stephens
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When Bill Clinton was running for president. I'll never forget this one. He was running in New Hampshire. He was not doing well. And he suddenly, over a weekend, rushed back to Little Rock to execute a guy who had killed a cop, but in the process, the policeman had shot him in the head and he was out of it. He didn't know today from tomorrow, good, evil, whatever. His lawyer begged - his lawyer was an old friend of Clinton.
Nat Hentoff
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I was interested in politics very much when I was growing up, and that's what I think I really wanted to be - either a senator, or a Supreme Court Justice, and I always wanted to be a lawyer.
Michael Riedel