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“I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs.”

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“I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.”

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Author:David Dinkins

“Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats.”

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Author:Constance Baker Motley

“One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.”

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Author:Anita Hill

“Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school.”

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Author:Tom Udall

“I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing with, and that we’re not making a picture for Harvard Law School, we’re making a picture for middle-class people, the people that you see on the subway, or the people that you see in a restaurant. Just normal people.”

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Author:Billy Wilder

“In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing.”

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Author:Thorstein Veblen

“I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.”

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Author:Shannon Miller

“And I spent that time working as an insurance adjuster and going to law school in the evening, and then when I left law school, I joined the Department of Justice in Washington.”

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Author:George J. Mitchell

“After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years.”

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Author:Alphonso Jackson

“My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school?”

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Author:Emanuel Celler

“Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school.”

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Author:Sandra Fluke

“At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality.”

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Author:James McGreevey

“One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution.”

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Author:Adrian Cronauer

“Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates.”

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Author:Daniel R. White

“The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.”

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Author:David E. Kelley

“In one survey, respondents listed Princeton as one of the country’s top ten law schools. The problem? Princeton doesn’t have a law school”

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Author:Alexandra Robbins

“I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin.”

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Author:Norman Lamm

“Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista?”

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Author:Mike Teti

“Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.”

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Author:Al Stewart

“I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature.”

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Author:Marian Wright Edelman

“I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn't interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.”

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Author:Julianna Margulies

“Courage is the most important attribute of a lawyer. It is more important than competence or vision. It can never be an elective in any law school. It can never be de-limited, dated or outworn, and it should pervade the heart, the halls of justice and the chambers of the mind.”

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Book:Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

Source: Rights for Americans: the speeches of Robert F. Kennedy

“Kerr's Three Rules for a Successful College: Have plenty of football for the alumni, sex for the students, and parking for the faculty. If law school is so hard to get through, how come there are so many lawyers?”

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Author:Calvin Trillin

“I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.”

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Author:Dick Gephardt

“I soon found law school an unmitigated bore.”

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Author:Constance Baker Motley

“I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money.”

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Author:George J. Mitchell

“I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself.”

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Author:Robert Bork

“Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69.”

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Author:Ruben Blades

“Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school.”

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Book:Dave Barry Does Japan

Source: Dave Barry Does Japan

“Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.”

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Author:Frank Abagnale

“I don't really know why I went to law school.”

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Author:Emily Giffin

“When I was fresh out of law school, I had a burning desire to do something important, to have an impact in some way, but I didn't know what it was.”

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Author:Jennifer Granholm

“My parents wanted me to go to law school.”

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Author:Sasha Alexander

“I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity.”

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Author:Warren Zevon

“I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.”

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Author:Wendy Davis

“The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.”

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Author:Ben Fountain

“Before I had decided to get into politics, I was laying the groundwork to have a career in the law, but that was really to lay the foundation to teach, either at the college level or law school level after my federal clerkships.”

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Author:Stephanie Herseth Sandlin

“When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.”

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Author:Patricia Ireland

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