- Bush Tax Cuts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lawyer Quotes
On practicing law, and what makes a lawyer worth trusting.
These quotes take the profession seriously — a call for justice to be delivered quickly and affordably in every case, and an observation that courtroom and medical dramas fascinate audiences because they show ordinary people under real pressure. See Jokes for a lighter companion.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Journalism
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really thought I wanted to be a lawyer, but then I had an epiphany when I was in law school and dropped out. I'd always been a journalism junkie, but I'd never had confidence to think that I could actually edit or write the stories.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clarence Darrow, America's best-known trial lawyer, was also one of American history's most skilled orators.
- Lawyers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone wants to say they hate lawyers, and yet I've never met a parent who didn't want their kid to be a lawyer.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed in pushing my kids. My dad was very unhappy I wasn't going to be a doctor, but I couldn't stand to see the sight of blood. And I wanted to be a lawyer since I was in seventh or eighth grade.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lawyer is never entirely comfortable with a friendly divorce, anymore than a good mortician wants to finish his job and then have the patient sit up on the table.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never lost an argument and my parents assumed I would be a lawyer. They cast me in that role.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good lawyer is the great salesman.
- Acting
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- Nov 07, 2020