Alan Dershowitz Quotes

When I was growing up, my mother would always say, 'It will go on your permanent record.' There was no 'permanent record.' If there were a 'permanent record,' I'd never be able to be a lawyer. I was such a bum in elementary school and high school... There is a permanent record today, and it's called the Internet.

Alan Dershowitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 1, 1938

Topics

MotherTodaySchoolGrowing UpGo

All good leaders are connectors. They relate well and make people feel confident about themselves and their leader.

John C. Maxwell

GoodLeaderPeopleConfidentFeel

I already experimented with free jazz in the 1960s and, in my opinion, to play free jazz, you have to be a perfect musician and a perfect human being - and none of us are!

John McLaughlin

OpinionFreeYouPerfectPlayJazz

When I was younger, when I was at school, I did read a lot of fiction. I think as you get older perhaps you're interested in essays and biographies and things like that. I think it's just important to just read as much as you can.

Ronald Frame

SchoolThinkYouImportantFiction

When I was five, I compound-fractured my arm, pulverising my elbow.

Mary H.K. Choi

FiveArmElbow

I like friendship.

Juergen Teller

FriendshipLike

The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue.

Dolly Parton

HomeHopeMeMakeupHusbandBath

Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts.

Deborah Harkness

FamilyLoveLove IsBuildingEasy

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

Chet Atkins

YouBecomePredictableInterested

Verizon had just come out with FiOS, and AT&T had U-verse. We came up with a couple of options, and then our marketing people came in and said, 'What do you think of Xfinity?'

Brian L. Roberts

PeopleThinkYouMarketingSaidOut

I have a wonderful make-up crew. They're the same people restoring the Statue of Liberty.

Bob Hope

FunnyPeopleLibertySameWonderful

There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.

Pierce Brosnan

PowerPeopleMeDoingGoMovies

Hollywood sucks. I've got the bruises to prove it.

Norman Fell

HollywoodProveGotSucks

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