“When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.” KindStrangerLawyerCountrysideJohannesburg Author:Nelson Mandela
“I've always liked politicians and lawyers. They keep the PR professional's status at least two from the bottom of the ethical food chain.” TwoPoliticianBottomLawyerChainsEthicalFood Chain Author:Shel Israel
“My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble.” KnowsKidsGuyGroupsCollegeGrewDadRepublicanGrew UpLaborHorseDemocraticDemocratMy DadJewLawyerImmigrantsBubblesHippieHardworking Author:David Mamet
“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.” IdeasSidesMy OwnSawsGrewDadGrew UpCapitalismManagementMy DadLawyerLabourBoth SidesCoinsMy Own LifeRobbersRobber Baron Author:David Mamet
“So long as men and women are free, no one is safe. People will be in danger because others can't operate vehicles responsibly or shoot straight. Because physicians are sometimes incompetent and lawyers dishonest. But most of all they will be in danger from ideas. It is the price we willingly pay to be free. Nor would we have it any other way.” PeopleMenWayLongIdeasSometimesPayDangerSafeMen And WomenLawyerVehiclePhysiciansIncompetent Author:Jack McDevitt
“Actually, acting turned out to be the perfect job for me, because I had a lot of different interests. I thought about being a priest at one point. I thought about being a teacher. I thought about being a lawyer. But I think acting is probably the best job for me.” ThinkingDifferentJobsInterestPerfectActingTeacherLawyerPriestsBest JobBeing A TeacherPerfect Job Author:John C. Reilly
“King Henry VIII, who said to his lawyer, Forget the alimony, I've got a better idea. Never got a dinner!” SaidIdeasForgetKingsDinnerLawyerAlimonyHenry ViiiHenry VKing Henry Author:Red Buttons
“Every year law schools churn out thousands of lawyers. We don't need any more lawyers. We need more lawyers like we need more talk-show hosts.” NeedsYearsShowsSchoolLawLawyerHostLaw SchoolTalk Shows Author:Craig Ferguson
“Making movies wasn't really an immediate thought, where I was raised. I was going to be a lawyer, and I thought I would just draw. So, I was sketching all the time and I realized that I needed some outlet, and then I found animation.” FoundNeededDrawsRaisedLawyerI RealizedAnimationOutletsSketching Author:Kevin Munroe
“It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client - this means that the property line will be drawn in the most equitable position, regardless of which neighbor is paying the bill.” KnowsFirstsMeanImportantInterestLinesLandPositionBillsPropertyNeighborLawyerClientsBiasedPublic InterestEquitableSurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“In general, salary for land surveyors is often similar to that of a professional engineer or lawyer - surveyors are often "comfortable" but not "wealthy."” LandComfortableLawyerWealthyEngineersSalarySurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science.” IfsThinkingEndsLawDadComputerMy DadMathLawyerPhysicsComputer Science Author:Bill Gates
“Especially from the legal end of things, the easiest thing for a big corporation or lawyer to say is no.” EndsBigsLawyerCorporationsBig Corporations Author:Jeff Tremaine
“It takes a long time to become a lawyer because you need three things - a bachelor's degree, a law degree, and a desire to worship Satan.” NeedsLongLawDesireThreeDegreesWorshipLong TimeLawyerSatanThree ThingsBachelors Author:Craig Ferguson
“We honor ambition, we reward greed, we celebrate materialism, we worship acquisitiveness, we commercialize art, we cherish success and then we bark at the young about the gentle arts of the spirit. The kids know that if we really valued learning, we would pay our teachers what we pay our lawyers and stockbrokers. If we valued art, we would not measure it by its capacity to produce profits. If we regarded literature as important, we would remove it from the celebrity sweepstakes and spend a little money on our libraries.” IfsKnowsLittlesArtImportantKidsYoungSpiritLiteraturePayTeacherProduceHonorAmbitionWorshipCapacityRewardsLibraryGreedProfitLawyerCelebrateGentleRemoveMaterialismCherishBarkLittle MoneyStockbrokersSweepstakes Author:Russell Baker
“I wanted to be a prosecutor - a criminal lawyer - because there's nowhere where the stakes are higher, where you can wake up every day and believe in what you're doing.” BelieveWantedHigherWake UpCriminalsLawyerStakesProsecutorCriminal Law Author:Preet Bharara
“Jewish people, we don't need the money. We're doctors and lawyers. It's the Christians who can't hold a steady job and have to go on TV and ask for money.” PeopleNeedsChristianJobsAsksTvsGoes OnDoctorsLawyerSteady Author:Andy Kindler
“Rich people bring a lawyer. Latinos and blacks bring their mom.” PeopleRichMomLawyerRich PeopleLatino Author:Felipe Esparza
“Mom did not want me to have anything to do with playing music. Being from a middle-class Black family in that particular era, everybody wanted you to have a profession -- a doctor, a lawyer, and so forth. So she sent me to school to study medicine.” WantWantedSchoolBlackClassGrowing UpStudyMiddleParticularMomMusic IsDoctorsMedicineProfessionLawyerErasMiddle ClassWant MePlaying MusicBlack Family Author:Don Alias
“Sometimes a photographer is a passenger, sometimes a person who stays in one place. What he watches changes constantly, but his watching never changes. He doesn't examine like a doctor, defend like a lawyer, analyze like a scholar, support like a priest, make people laugh like a comedian, or intoxicate like a singer. He only watches. This is enough. No, this is all I can do. All a photographer can do is watch. Therefore, a photographer has to watch all the time. He must face the object and make his entire body an eye. A photographer is someone who wagers everything on seeing.” PeoplePersonsI CanSometimesEnoughBodyEyeFacesCan DoWatchesSupportLaughingSeeingObjectsDoctorsPhotographerLawyerSingersComedianPriestsScholarNever ChangeMaking People LaughPassengersWagers Author:Shomei Tomatsu
“As long as American liberals are going to keep announcing that they're embarrassed for their country, how about being embarrassed by our public schools or by our ridiculous trial lawyer culture that other countries find laughable?” LongCountrySchoolCultureLawyerRidiculousTrialsOther CountriesEmbarrassedPublic SchoolLaughableAnnouncingTrial Lawyers Author:Ann Coulter
“I can be really silly, but I never get to do that. I'm always playing on-the-nose characters, professionals - lawyers, a serious news anchor, people with a really focused energy, which can become a cliched type.” PeopleI CanCharacterEnergySeriousTypeNewsFocusedLawyerSillyNosesAnchorsNews Anchors Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“I'm kind of floating out there as an artist. I'm in a safe place where I can play a girlfriend or a best friend or a mommy or a lawyer, but a huge part of me is unused. I'm classically trained, historically inclined and somewhat revolutionary by nature, so I'm frustrated as an artist.” KindI CanPlayArtistHugeSafeLawyerRevolutionaryGirlfriendFrustratedFloatingSafe Places Author:Nicole Ari Parker
“We must begin to train lawyers the minute they walk into law school to tell the truth. They must immediately begin to learn the business of representing people. They must be assigned cases the first day.” PeopleFirstsSchoolLawWalksCasesMinutesTrainLawyerTelling The TruthRepresentingLaw School Author:Gerry Spence
“I think you get people taking things to excess in all fields, doctors, lawyers - -it happens to all kinds of people.” PeopleThinkingKindHappensFieldsDoctorsLawyerAll KindsExcess Author:John Frusciante
“Banning all Muslims will make it harder for us to do exactly what we need to do, which is to destroy ISIS. We need a strategy. We need to get the lawyers off the back of the warfighters.” NeedsHarderStrategyLawyerIsis Author:Jeb Bush
“I offer myself as a leader to the people of this country because I think they're looking for solutions, not lawyers arguing over laws or entertainers throwing out sound bites that draw media attention. We need to solve the problem.” PeopleThinkingNeedsCountryProblemLawSoundAttentionLeaderMediaOffersSolutionsDrawsSolveLawyerArguingBitesThrowingEntertainersSound Bites Author:Ted Cruz
“Rich people, they stay out of jail not just because they have more money but because they grew up in a culture where they're educated by people to say, "I don't have to talk to the cops. If I get arrested, I'm not going to say a word to them. I'm just going to wait until my family lawyer gets here".” PeopleIfsCultureWaitingRichGrewGrew UpMy FamilyLawyerEducatedJailMore MoneyCopRich PeopleArrested Author:Immortal Technique
“I think whether you are a judge on my court or whether you are a judge on a court of appeals or any court, and lawyers too - and if you're interested in law yourself, you'll be in the same situation - you have a text that isn't clear. If the text is clear, you follow the text. If the text isn't clear, you have to work out what it means. And that requires context.” IfsThinkingMeanLawSituationClearJudgingCourtWork OutLawyerAppealsIn-laws Author:Stephen Breyer
“I always bring it up to my lawyer every now and then. And another reason we have to revisit it is because there is a restoration going on right now for the film through UCLA and Sundance.” ReasonFilmRight NowLawyerNow And ThenRestorationUclaSundance Author:Todd Haynes
“I feel very fortunate for audiences to have been so gracious as to allow me to do pretty much any role that I felt I could do. They let me play a president. They let me play a lawyer. They let me play a hit man. They let me play a father. They let me play Howard Saint.” MenFeelsHas BeensPlayFatherFeltPresidentRolesAudienceLet MeSaintLawyerFortunateGracious Author:John Travolta
“I want to be an entertainment lawyer so I'll be in the business still.” WantStillsEntertainmentLawyer Author:Charice Pempengco
“I wanted to be a doctor, but my mom was like "It's really hard and it's going to take 10 years, so I was like "OK, I'll just be a lawyer."” YearsHardWantedMomDoctorsMy MomLawyer Author:Charice Pempengco
“Right now I'm trying to help my sister with her school situation, 'cause she's real smart. Besides me, my other brother's a lawyer... my parents stressed education a lot.” TryingRealHelpingSchoolCausesParentSituationBrotherRight NowSmartLawyerMy SisterStressed Author:Wyclef Jean
“If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?” PeopleIfsBodyPoliticalHoursTalkingToo MuchHundredTradeCongressLawyerFiftyYield Author:Thomas Jefferson
“I was a trial lawyer. At the same time, I was a teacher. I taught about the political and social content of film for American University. Then I left and became a teacher at the University of California at Santa Cruz. I taught about the political and social content of film, but I also taught a course in law for undergraduates.” FilmLawPoliticalCoursesLeftSocialTeacherTaughtUniversityLawyerTrialsCaliforniaSantaIn-lawsCruzAmerican UniversitiesTrial LawyersSanta Cruz Author:Ben Stein
“I really believe that a lawyer - no matter how good - if he or she is really worth their weight in salt, they will lose some cases because, after all, it is not really one of those secretive things that not everything is decided by who your lawyer is.” IfsBelieveMatterLosesCasesDecidedWeightLawyerSaltSecretive Author:Floyd Abrams
“My mum thought my TV and film addiction was laziness. If you're an immigrant, you know you'll never be an accepted part of society, but you hope your children will be, and you try to make them essential to the community in a practical way - being a doctor or a lawyer. Acting was beyond their comprehension.” IfsKnowsWayTryingChildrenFilmCommunityActingTvsEssentialsDoctorsOur ChildrenAddictionLawyerAcceptedPracticalsYour ChildrenImmigrantsLazinessMumComprehension Author:Sanjeev Bhaskar
“Given her lack of experience, does anyone doubt that Ms. Miers's only qualification to be a Supreme Court justice is her close connection to the president? Would the president have ever picked her if she had not been his lawyer, his close confidante, and his adviser?” IfsDoeGivenPresidentJusticeDoubtConnectionsCourtLawyerSupremeSupreme CourtQualificationsAdviserSupreme Court JusticeCourt Justice Author:Randy Barnett
“When I was in jail I could only think about what the average person has to go through - the person who has no power to go to the press or no money to hire a lawyer.” ThinkingPersonsPressesAverageLawyerJailNo MoneyAverage Person Author:Josh Brolin
“Al Qaeda has declared war on the Somali pirates. That is awesome! Evil against evil. Like Alien versus Predator or Cheney versus his lawyer.” WarEvilLawyerAliensAlsVersusPirateAl QaedaPredatorSomali Author:Craig Ferguson
“Meeting people is difficult, period. LA is a difficult place to meet people anyway, and Hollywood is such a small community. But I don't make it a rule just to date other actors and people in the entertainment industry. It could work out with me and a dentist. It could work out with me and a lawyer.” PeopleActorsDifficultCommunityIndustryPeriodsHollywoodMeetingsEntertainmentWork OutLawyerDentistEntertainment IndustrySmall Communities Author:Eva Longoria
“The history of successful cases, some of which are in this museum, illustrates that often the regulators and legislatures don't wake up until some plaintiff gets a lawyers and digs out the cover-ups and the incriminating information about a safety defect in an automobile or another product.” CasesSuccessfulInformationProductsWake UpSafetyLawyerMuseumsDefectsAutomobileLegislatureCover UpsRegulators Author:Ralph Nader
“It was an injured worker finding a lawyer on a contingent fee in a little town in Texas that blew the top off one of the greatest industrial disasters in American history.” LittlesFindingsTownsWorkersLawyerDisasterTexasAmerican HistoryInjuredFeesLittle Towns Author:Ralph Nader
“Exactly who is this God character who is said to be all-powerful yet needs to hire lawyers to take us to court? Isn't he miffed when someone he had always considered to be a true follower turns to the legal system rather than to prayer? Why would the faithful risk making God look ridiculous by losing a trial on Earth when he is certain to win every trial in heaven?” NeedsLooksSaidCharacterEarthCertainTurnsWinningHeavenPrayerPowerfulRiskLosingCourtLawyerRidiculousTrialsFaithfulFollowersLegal System Author:Scott Simon
“When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working.” PeopleKnowsWritingTryingFirstsStoriesLawyerNurse Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“Lawyering is very individualistic. There are lawyers who are going to be that persistent birddog, they're never going to give up on the client, they're going to defend people.” PeopleGivingGiving UpLawyerClientsPersistentIndividualistic Author:Lynne Stewart
“There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.” FeelsBelieveLevelsLawyerDedicatedClientsRepresentation Author:Lynne Stewart
“I’m not only a lawyer, I have a post-doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I’ve worked in serious scholarship ... my husband and I have raised five kids, we’ve raised 23 foster children. We’ve applied ourselves to education reform. We started a charter school for at-risk kids.” ChildrenStatesKidsSchoolLawUnitedUnited StatesFiveRiskSeriousHusbandTaxesDegreesCourtRaisedLawyerReformPostsMy HusbandMaryScholarshipFoster ChildrenCharterEducation ReformDoctoratesCharter SchoolsFederal Taxes Author:Michele Bachmann