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"I certainly believe it's over for the jury system, but we won't admit it for a while."
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"Joblessness brings you face to face with destiny."

"The purpose of employment is not to make money."

"Joblessness gives you time to grow."

"Life experience is the new work experience."

"Believe it or not, I worked four summers in college as a sports writer covering baseball for a parks and rec department in Bayonne, N.J."

"I should never have been happy in any profession that did not call forth the highest intellectual strain, and yet keep me in good warm contact with my neighbors. There is nothing like the medical profession for that: one can have the exclusive scientific life that touches the distance and befriend the old fogie in the parish too."

"When you're under employment, you are not working in the area of your calling but rather helping to fulfill your employer's."

"Your professional experience can strengthen your resume, increase your earning potential, prove dependability, instill trust, and open new doors of opportunity which would remain closed otherwise."

"We need to stop telling [women], "Get a mentor and you will excel". Instead, we need to tell them, "Excel and you will get a mentor"."
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"What I didn't know was that if I didn't stand with my back to the wall, Hollywood people would unscrew my ass and sell it down the river."

"You've got people who are looking at DNA evidence and other evidence like that and they're ignoring it."

"I'm sure I took some licks at the system, and at trials and lawyers in general. I've seen enough of them for so many years both as a cop and a defendant in defamation cases."

"Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are."

"When I interview people accused of capital offenses, I never even ask if they did it. I would consider that unprofessional."

"The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore."

"I enjoy doing the research of nonfiction; that gives me some pleasure, being a detective again."
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