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Robert Shapiro Quotes

Our constitutionally-based criminal justice system places a high value on protecting the innocent. Among its central tenets is the idea that it is better to let a guilty person go free than to convict someone without evidence beyond a reasonable doubt.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 2, 1942

Topics

Justice Value Free Better Someone

We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.

Excellence Me You Situation Striving

You're not going to eliminate concussions. Anytime you hit your head, you have a chance of getting a concussion, in any sport, too. I think we have to learn more about it. Part of it is rules, part of it is equipment, part of it is medical studies, knowing more about the brain.

Medical Brain Chance Think Learn

I ate no butcher's meat, lived chiefly on fruits, vegetables, and fish, and never drank a glass of spirits or wine until my wedding day. To this I attribute my continual good health, endurance, and an iron constitution.

John James Audubon

Good Good Health Health Day Wine

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Will Never Again Zimbabwe Colony

Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny pair of shoes in the hallway or lean small wooden crutches in what I refer to as 'the baby's room,' which is actually a tiny space where I make things. I continue to call it the baby's room because it confuses people and it's creepy.

Shoes Space Child People Baby Small

Marriage is a walk in the park compared to being a single mother or father. I'll take that walk later.

Sophie B. Hawkins

Marriage Father Mother Walk Park

Writing and reading fiction is, I think, a human effort to make sense of the world.

Effort Writing World Reading Think

Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.'

Father Path Team Growing Up You

I'm still really fascinated with characters and people and telling their stories.

Michelle Monaghan

People Still Telling Stories Really

I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.

Mistakes My Own Realize Own Critic

Once you are a proper, serious law-maker, you can't break the laws you're writing.

Writing You Serious Break Laws Once

There are a lot of great people everywhere. And there are also a lot of not so great people.

Clemantine Wamariya

Great People Great People Everywhere

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