Alan Dershowitz Quotes

I tell my students, if you ever become comfortable with your role as criminal defense lawyer, it's time to quit. It should be a constant source of discomfort, because you're dealing with incredible moral ambiguity, and you've been cast into a role which is not enviable.

Alan Dershowitz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Everyone wants instant gratification: you have to have everything your parents had right away.

Jim Flaherty

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If every American automatically has health coverage, the age at which Medicare kicks in becomes a less fraught issue. We could gradually raise the age of Medicare eligibility a bit, according to income, and save money.

Joe Klein

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I've been recording since 1993. It was a hobby for six of those years. In 1999, I decided to do it full time and take it seriously.

Jenni Rivera

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I love living with animals. And my children love animals. I love walking around and being with the horses. But the deer? They're naughty.

Stephanie Seymour

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I remember lying out in my bed and looking at the vast, quiet sky. Right up above my head, there were three stars in a row, and I remember thinking, 'Well, I'll have those three stars all my life, and wherever I am, they will be. They are my stars, and they belong to me.'

Spike Milligan

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Slapping a catchy acronym like the JOBS Act on a piece of legislation makes it more difficult for politicians to oppose it - and indeed that's what happened with the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act.

Steven Rattner

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To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

Robert E. Sherwood

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I had a very progressive drama teacher who would buy all the plays that were in New York and bring them to suburban Texas.

Matt Bomer

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As a transgender child, I was always looking around for someone like me, because I thought I was the only one. It's hard to feel like that. But having support from my family changed everything. They helped me love myself and embrace who I am.

Jazz Jennings

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The reason I bought the Tesla was to help fund the Model S - and because I like things that are fast, sexy and high-tech.

Jason Calacanis

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We are focused on Main Street, on supporting economic conditions - plentiful jobs and stable prices - that help all Americans.

Janet Yellen

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You give me someone with the right personality, and I'll give you a bar manager in three weeks. You give me someone who has been a lousy bar manager for 30 years, and in three weeks, you'll still have a lousy bar manager.

Jon Taffer

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