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" Acting is seductive. It looks so much fun. I did dally with other things. I did pupillage in a law firm, but I didn't like the look of how many files the lawyer I was working with had to take home every night. It looked like a hideous amount of work, when actors were having nice lunches and discussing books. "
Nina Conti
" A good lawyer is a bad Christian. "
John Lothrop Motley
" A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case. "
Alan Dershowitz
" A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer. "
A. Whitney Brown
" A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. "
Robert Frost
" A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns. "
Marguerite Young
" 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. "
Jean Kerr
" A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. "
William Dunbar
" A lawyer who makes an impression as credible, competent, and civil is one whose thoughts I'll take seriously. "
Raymond Kethledge
" A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth. "
Patrick Murray
" A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns. "
Mario Puzo
" A lawyer without history or literature is a mechanic, a mere working mason; if he possesses some knowledge of these, he may venture to call himself an architect. "
Walter Scott
" A lot of people probably don't realize how difficult it is to stick to that lawyer speak when you're not a lawyer. I see everyone on 'The Good Wife' - everyone, people who have been there since day one - struggling with that language because it is just not how people talk. "
Carrie Preston
" Another woman approached me while I was having lunch at the Russian Tea Room in New York and told me that the reason she had become a lawyer was because she had read 'Rage of Angels'. To me, that kind of feedback has more meaning than any sales figures. "
Sidney Sheldon
" Any good trial lawyer knows that if you've got one credible expert or scientific study, then you can let the jury decide. "
Joe Jamail
" As a child I wanted to be a professional athlete or lawyer. "
Walter Dean Myers
" As a child I wanted to be everything from a doctor, lawyer, flight attendant to an IT pro- fessional and could never make up my mind. I figured as an actor I'd get to play all these professions. "
Lavrenti Lopes
" As a first-generation American, my parents expected that I would go on to have pretty tactical higher-education-type jobs - doctor, lawyer, engineer. Those were the three options. My dad was not at all open to the idea that there would not be a higher education in my future. "
Bozoma Saint John
" As a kid, I wanted to be a musician but also aspired to be Andy Griffith's lawyer character, Ben Matlock. "
John Legend
" As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent. "
Sheldon Whitehouse
" As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur. "
David Baldacci
" As a lawyer, I could engage in killer litigation with the best of them. It was war, after all. "
Megyn Kelly
" As a lawyer, I've dealt with really serious offences, and the public rarely hear what the true impact is on the victims' families. When you hear it from the mouths of victims, your entire approach changes, because it could happen to anybody, and they articulate that in such a powerful way. "
Robert Rinder
" As a lawyer, particularly in criminal law, you really do have to try to tell your story to the jury and hope that the judge makes rulings that allows your story to get through. "
Marcia Clark
" As a lawyer who has dealt in defamation, I know that someone's reputation has to be lowered in the eyes of right-thinking people to sue. "
David Hunt
" As a practising lawyer, I was mediocre, but I worked hard as a law officer of the state government and on the private side. After becoming a judge, I maintained a low profile in other activities and concentrated only on judicial work. "
P. Sathasivam
" As a private lawyer, I could bill $750 an hour, but I don't. "
Jay Alan Sekulow
" 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
" As the lawyer, I found most of it was a matter of research, which I was great at - that's what I did to death - and then basically persuading people that you're right, and they're wrong... I found that the easiest of all the professions to impersonate. "
Frank Abagnale
" As the state's top lawyer, I am empowered to protect nonprofit donors from fraudulent solicitations and charitable assets from misuse. "
Eric Schneiderman
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