Lawyer Quotes

If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.

Austan Goolsbee

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I was taught that a lawyer was supposed to be a custodian of the community's legal and ethical sense.

Joe Jamail

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My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

Benjamin Clementine

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I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.

William Lashner

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My mother worked for a white family that lived in one of the mansions on the beach. The husband in the family was a lawyer; he worked for a firm in New Orleans.

Jesmyn Ward

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I didn't expect to have music as my main thing. I always thought I was going to be a lawyer. When I graduated, I was doing really well with my music in Malaysia. I had stable income, and I had really good momentum in the music industry, so I had to make a decision whether to stop that and continue being a lawyer.

Yuna

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I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

Susana Martinez

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It is important that people support prisoners of the Italian state like Joe in whatever way they can. I was not allowed contact with a lawyer for the first 24 hours, and no phone calls were permitted, but apparently telegrams have been getting through to Joe.

John Blair

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I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

Viet D. Dinh

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As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor, and as a son and grandson of foreign-service officers who tried to represent American democracy in foreign and dangerous places, the idea that this crowd of crooked fossil-fuel types is able to take over and run our democracy like we are a banana republic - I find that repellent.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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After I'd been a lawyer for about five or six years, I started playing around with fiction.

John Grisham

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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.

Patrick Murray

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I am a pretty good lawyer, and I decided to close the office and to enter politics.

Tzipi Livni

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After graduating from Brown, I went to law school and became a corporate lawyer in New York City.

Andrew Yang

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Every single day I'm alive or you're alive, we're choosing this life and this persona. We choose to be the stay-at-home mom who loves baking and Pilates. We choose to be a hipster who loves coffee shops and artisan goods. We choose to be a lawyer who runs marathons and only eats organic.

Rachel Hollis

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When a criminal breaks into your home I'll let the liberals call the lawyer. I'm going to call Smith & Wesson.

Rick Perry

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My mom was like, 'Get your law degree first, become a lawyer, and then you can tell jokes on the weekends. You can be a lawyer and just throw jokes into your presentations.' Now she's like, 'Listen, you need to come up with new material.' All of a sudden, my mom's a critic.

Maz Jobrani

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My initial thoughts of becoming a lawyer changed in high school as I became more attracted to math and science and began talking about being an engineer.

Oliver E. Williamson

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Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

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My father wasn't a very good lawyer. He thought the law was sacred and something that was meant to help people. He didn't charge people like he should have... which is why I was allowed to play bars and strip joints when I was 14.

Max Weinberg

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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.

Laura Linney

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I was a pretty independent kid. I thought maybe I'd be a veterinarian or an environmental lawyer.

Mark Parker

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I'm a lawyer who, on occasion, represents celebrities.

Robert Shapiro

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You learn on the job. When I was a young lawyer and got a case, I knew nothing about the subject. You start reading, you look for the philosophy behind it, and by the time you are actually in a court of law, you are a master.

Kapil Sibal

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