#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

I mean the word proof not in the sense of the lawyers, who set two half proofs equal to a whole one, but in the sense of a mathematician, where half proof = 0, and it is demanded for proof that every doubt becomes impossible. ↗

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

#demanded #doubt #equal #every #half

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#difference #doctors #kill #lawyers #merely

There's lots of stuff about me being a fan of Cliff but not being gay. Which suggests that he is, but he's not. Anyway, this is Channel 4, let their lawyers sort it out. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#anyway #being #channel #channel 4 #cliff

We're talking about the lawyers for the United States of America. And I think it's very, very important that the lawyers be comfortable being very candid and open about their views on very sensitive issues affecting the United States. ↗

— Alberto Gonzales

#affecting #america #being #candid #comfortable

As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#always #commitment #components #corresponding #incarceration

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

#agents #deal #fame #i #lawyers

I retire to make way for an abler man. In my four years as attorney general I have aged about ten years, but when I have get back to the practice of law, I hope to show those lawyers that I still have some vitality left. ↗

— Alexander Henry

#aged #attorney #attorney general #back #four

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#become #college #doctors #graduates #high

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up. ↗

— Ian Hislop

#any #everyone #given #lawyers #libel