Alan Dershowitz Quotes

I think mistakes are the essence of science and law. It's impossible to conceive of either scientific progress or legal progress without understanding the important role of being wrong and of mistakes.

Alan Dershowitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.

John C. Reilly

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Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

John Chamberlain

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The public conviction that a railroad linking the West and the East was an absolute necessity became so pronounced after the gold discoveries of '49 that Congress passed an act in 1853 providing for a survey of several lines from the Mississippi to the Pacific.

John Moody

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Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

John Lennon

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I'm not as surprised in going from playing 1,000 seats to 4,000 seats as I was from 100 to 500 seats.

John Mayer

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There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.

Robert Orben

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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis.

Michael Apted

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There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

John Romero

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Microsoft has a monopoly over the desktop operating systems.

Stewart Alsop

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After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made.

Tommy Kirk

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Some politicians fear the burden that migrants will impose on local communities and taxpayers. Others fear extremists masquerading as genuine refugees.

Jose Angel Gurria

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Many entrepreneurs think that cash is the ultimate solution to all of their problems: the one thing standing between them and their dreams.

Jon Oringer

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