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Quotes by Lawyer
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."
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"Instead of sitting on the sidelines, President Obama has made it clear that the US is ready to lead a global effort to combat climate change."
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"The reader has to be creative when he's reading. He has to try to make the thing alive. A good reader has to do a certain amount of work when he is reading."
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"Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment."
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"When television is good, nothing is better. When it's bad, nothing is worse."
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"I can't turn on the television without seeing me, or open the newspaper without seeing me and, honestly, I'm sick to death of me."
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"Those who live in a world of human beings can only retrace their steps."
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"Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart."
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"We cannot, with good conscience, expect the British to set up an orderly schedule for the liberation of India before we have decided for ourselves to make all who live in America free."
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"What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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"Only the last two planes, I think, had any shot of being intercepted and taken down on 9/11."
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"I came from Nebraska, a very middle class family with a progressive father."
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"With respect to the FBI, they had problems communicating in a vertical way, within the FBI itself, so that information of importance could get pushed up to those who were decision-makers."
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"The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business."
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"To be trained in karate is something because karate is a vicious thing. If you are any good at it, you can kill somebody with it. It is a vicious way to fight."
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"Human life is held in much higher esteem, and the taking of it, whether in private quarrel or by judicial procedure, is looked upon much more seriously than it was formerly."
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"I'm a big believer in the fact that life is about preparation, preparation, preparation."
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"I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a hell of a lot more if I had been understood."
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"Every time I see something terrible, it's like I see it at age 19. I keep a freshness that way."
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"The Emmy will have no effect on me, from the standpoint that you've still got to wash your bowl after breakfast."
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"Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published."
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"Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time."
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"I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office."
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"I am a friend of the working man, and I would rather be his friend, than be one."
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"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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"So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble."
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"I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate."
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"The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy."
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"Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us."
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"A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers."
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"I decided I wanted to be a lawyer when I was 11 years of age."
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"I am not much given to profanity, but when I am sorely aggravated and vexed in spirit I declare to you that it comes as such a relief to me, such a solace to my troubled soul, and brings me such Heavenly peace to every now and then allow a word of phrase to escape my lips which can serve me no other earthly purpose, seemingly, other than to render emphatic my otherwise mildly expressed ideas."
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"In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so."
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"I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers."
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