If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.
Henry Rollins
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It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.
Erik Larson
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The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.
David E. Kelley
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As a rule lawyers tend to want to do whatever they can to win.
Bill Williams
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I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it - also realizing it.
Alan Dershowitz
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I represent poor people, I represent working people. I represent senior citizens. I represent family businesses. I represent people who don't have the wherewithal to hire overpriced Washington lobbyists and lawyers. I want to send the powers back to the states and the people.
Paul Broun
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Jury instructions are so numerous and complex, it's a wonder jurors ever wade through them. And so it should come as no surprise that they can sometimes get stuck along the way. The instruction on circumstantial evidence is confusing even to lawyers. And reasonable doubt? That's the hardest, most elusive one of all.
Marcia Clark
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I was trained to be an actor, not a star. I was trained to play roles, not to deal with fame and agents and lawyers and the press.
Gene Hackman
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My view is that the Internet should be run by engineers and entrepreneurs, not lawyers and bureaucrats.
Ajit Pai
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I'd be bored to death if I spent all my time with other businesspeople, bankers and lawyers.
Eli Broad
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You don't need lawyers making laws. Regular citizens can make laws. Let the lawyers work under the laws.
Jesse Ventura
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Sure, just like there are bad lawyers, bad doctors and bad politicians, there are people who aren't cut out to be teachers. But by and large, the people who are called to be teachers are passionate about the profession.
Randi Weingarten
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Most financiers, corporate lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants are competing with other financiers, lawyers, lobbyists, and management consultants in zero-sum games that take money out of one set of pockets and put it into another.
Robert Reich
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Nothing important is done in the United States without lawyers.
Jean Monnet
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The question arises whether all lawyers are the same. This is like asking whether everything that gets into a sewer is garbage.
Florynce Kennedy
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I hate the idea that you somehow, as a human being, have to be put in a box. There's no reason why lawyers can't be fun - or actresses can't be serious.
Amal Clooney
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
Candace Camp
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Sadly the job security of lawyers has been ruined, so they are less willing to defend political defendants.
Shirin Ebadi
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I'm fortunate to work for a company that supports investigative journalism with strong editors and lawyers. That's the benefit of working for a company that's been around for more than a century.
Matt Apuzzo
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If everyone charged with crimes suddenly exercised his constitutional rights, there would not be enough judges, lawyers, or prison cells to deal with the ensuing tsunami of litigation.
Michelle Alexander
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A lot of filmmaking is just sort of slowed down by lawyers who feel they're more important than the filmmakers.
Jay Chandrasekhar
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We have doctors and lawyers and CEOs as fans.
Johnny Van Zant
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I never dreamed I'd be a spokesman for anything. But Pac Bell just asked me. The money was OK; the scripts were fun because I had to do in 30 seconds what it takes a whole feature to do and because the dysfunctional family of agents, managers and lawyers who represent me said it was cool.
Chris Eigeman
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