#lawyer

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems. ↗

— Benjamin Carson

#got #how #law #law school #lawyers

Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to make abstract paintings, and people only became lawyers and doctors and brokers and things because they couldn't make abstract paintings. ↗

— Frank Stella

#became #because #believed #brokers #doctors

Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. ↗

— Johnnie Cochran

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There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. ↗

— Jean Giraudoux

#better way #ever #exercising #freely #imagination

Being a lawyer in New York sucks because you're working eighty, sometimes a hundred hours a week. ↗

— David Steinberg

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Lawyers, I suppose, were children once. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#children #i #lawyers #once #suppose

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ↗

— Robert Frost

#chosen #consists #decide #jury #lawyer

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. ↗

— Robert Frost

#chosen #consist #decide #jury #lawyer

My dad, of course, like a lot of Asian parents, wanted me to be an engineer or doctor and never could understand why I would want to be a lawyer. And then, when I first said I wanted to run for office, he thought that was absolutely insane. ↗

— Gary Locke

#asian #could #course #dad #doctor

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. ↗

— Imelda Marcos

#bill #bill gates #billions #college #companies