David Boies Quotes

You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.

David Boies

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 11, 1941

Topics

ChildrenParentsLawFeelYouGo

I know there are different kinds of actors, but I tend to have less effective relationships with actors who have a very private process - who really need to do lots of internal work, so that I become merely a witness until they're ready to share.

Joe Mantello

WorkProcessReadyKnowBecomeNeed

My brother liked sewing and sculpting and making things, and my sister sewed and painted and cooked and baked. She's a professional baker now and makes the most gorgeous sculpture-like cakes. She's the queen of wedding cakes in the Lake Tahoe area.

John Lasseter

QueenBrotherSisterWeddingLake

She needs to seem tough, and whatever Hillary's weaknesses, tough is a pretty good word to describe her.

John Podhoretz

GoodToughSheWhateverPrettySeem

I think the impulse to get to the heart of the story and to tell it well is in my genes.

Amy Bloom

HeartStoryThinkTellGenesWell

Bitterness is so ugly.

Amy Heckerling

UglyBitterness

I had a few stocks, but stocks took a dive. I never sell my stocks.

Mickey Gilley

NeverDiveSellStocksFewTook

I was born in D.C. on 8th Street. I know what's up. I know what time it is. I used to hang out in Brooklyn and in the Bronx as a teenager. I know what the real world is like.

Michael Steele

TimeWorldBrooklynBornKnowReal

Being in a band is far more than playing an instrument. It's surviving. It's getting an album together.

Josh Silver

TogetherMoreBandSurvivingPlaying

I was told, time and time again, that God's potential didn't exist in people like me. I've spent my life fighting to change that. And, from the first day when I met Hillary Clinton, I've known that she's someone who cares just as much and fights just as hard.

Donna Brazile

LifeChangeGodTimeDayPeople

I'm still writing from personal experiences, which is what people connected with in the first place.

Clairo

PeopleWritingPlacePersonalFirst

I drove an orange Camaro and dated a cheerleader. Life was good.

Brad Barkley

LifeGoodOrangeCheerleaderDrove

I just felt that if the team is doing seven hours, I'd want to do eight. I'd always need to do more. I knew that would make me better than everybody else.

Bradley Wiggins

MeTeamBetterDoingWantNeed

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