I was pre-med at Glasgow University. I was from a family who were of the mind that if you were clever enough to be a doctor or a lawyer, why wouldn't you be?
John Tiffany
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I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.
Gillian Jacobs
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If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.
Amal Clooney
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While I have served in public office for 30 years, my professional training is as a pharmacist, not a lawyer or an accountant.
George Ryan
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I always thought I'd become an immigration lawyer.
Su-chin Pak
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You find a personality whom you think the TV audience will embrace and find a format that is tailor-made for the personality. In the case of Andy Griffith, we moved the personality of a wily country shark - a funny and shrewd guy - into another arena. In this case, he is a lawyer, and it is a dramatic series.
Fred Silverman
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I'm not a lawyer, and maybe I should have used more specific legal language.
Sonny Bono
LawyerLegalLanguageMoreUsed
My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.
David Mamet
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Without really trying to, I've become a sort of jailhouse lawyer of relationships - someone who's had to do so much work on her own case that I can now help you with yours.
Tracy McMillan
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Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.
David Boies
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Finding a good barber is like finding a good lawyer - you gotta go to the same guy.
Ronny Chieng
GoodLawyerFindingYouGoBarber
No one's calling me for lawyer roles. I still have a lot to do to prove myself.
Channing Tatum
MyselfMeLawyerProveStillRoles
As a lawyer and a former prosecutor, I know the limits of the power and authority of the president. I know what is legal and what is not.
Rodrigo Duterte
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Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
Bill Veeck
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How fortunate I was to be alive and a lawyer when, for the first time in United States history, it became possible to urge, successfully, before legislatures and courts, the equal-citizenship stature of women and men as a fundamental constitutional principle.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Growing up, I never gave a thought to being a writer. All I ever wanted to be was a traveler and explorer. Science-fiction allowed me to go places that were otherwise inaccessible, which is why I started reading it. I was going to be a lawyer, but I got saved.
Alan Dean Foster
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My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge.
Mickey Kaus
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Nobody wants to be a lawyer - it's hard work. But it was kind of my academic route.
Vinny Guadagnino
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It is always important that we have transparency, that we have shareholder protection. Then again, I think it is important that there are not so many regulations that management can't make a decision without asking a lawyer whether he can do it.
Michael Otto
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I've learned a lot with every character, everything from being a cop, to a lawyer to a tattoo artist. And underneath that stuff, I've been really able to find myself through the characters. It's served as a cheap form of emotional therapy.
Sarah Shahi
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I'm a lawyer. I go for due process; I go for fairness and equity - these values mean a lot to me.
Mohamed ElBaradei
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My parents have mellowed quite a bit, but, growing up, there was a sense that the only real professions were doctor, engineer, lawyer. Those were your choices.
Reggie Lee
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But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.
Lisa Scottoline
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Basically, I come to Washington a couple of times a year, sort of on a strictly business basis: talk to my counterparts at the Federal Trade Commission, of the DOJ, give an occasional talk, very often in a lawyer or academic environment.
Margrethe Vestager
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