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I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye. -- Patsy Cline
I enjoyed the courtroom as just another stage but not so amusing as Broadway. -- Mae West
There's a lot more to competence than a law degree and a modicum of courtroom skill. -- Fred Thompson
It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing. -- Warren Christopher
Money will determine whether the accused goes to prison or walks out of the courtroom a free man. -- Johnnie Cochran
We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians. -- Warren E. Burger
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. -- Don Henley
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. -- H. L. Mencken
The judge turned his back towards me, sitting back on his judge's chair, while I was in the witness stand being questioned. The whole courtroom was full of these anarchists, leftists, communists and Jewish lobbyists. -- Ernst Zundel
In the courtroom, it's where a lawyer really becomes an actor. There's a very fine line between delivering a monologue in a play and delivering a monologue to a jury. I've always felt that way - I've been in a lot of courtrooms. The best lawyers are really theatrical. -- Woody Harrelson
While teaching, I also worked undercover in the lower courts by saying I was a young law teacher wanting experience in criminal law. The judges were happy to assist me but what I learned was how corrupt the lower courts were. Judges were accepting money right in the courtroom. -- Samuel Dash
Courtroom dramas can be boring. -- Laura Linney
If you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. -- Lance Ito
Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas. -- H. L. Mencken
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom -- Clarence Darrow
The only way those Ten Commandments and prayer would be stripped from that Courtroom is with the force of arms. -- Fob James
A lawyers performance in the courtroom is responsible for about 25 percent of the outcome; the remaining 75 percent depends on the facts. -- Melvin Belli
The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes. -- Lindsey Graham
Let's deal with reality. The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. -- Eric Holder
This is the time that I really miss being in my courtroom because I believe that that's the last place in this country where there's supposed to be fairness. -- Star Jones
Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special. -- Irving R. Kaufman
The one place where a man ought to get a square deal is in a courtroom, be he any color of the rainbow, but people have a way of carrying their resentments right into a jury box. -- Harper Lee
The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases. -- Lance Ito
Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-f-king-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong? -- Bill Hicks
People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you. -- Eugenie Scott
I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that. -- Lance Ito
Jurors want courtroom lawyers to have some compassion and be nice. -- Johnnie Cochran
Of course, actors look forward to the day when they can do a big courtroom scene. -- Greg Kinnear
From childhood on, I did sit in the courtroom watching my father argue cases and talk to juries. -- Harper Lee
Haldeman is the only man in America in this generation who let his hair grow for a courtroom appearance. -- Mary McGrory
Justice has nothing to do with what goes on in a courtroom; Justice is what comes out of a courtroom. -- Clarence Darrow
It takes a long time to learn that a courtroom is the last place in the world for learning the truth. -- Alice Koller
I have had positive experiences with cameras. When I have been asked to join experiments using cameras in the courtroom, I have participated; I have volunteered. -- Sonia Sotomayor
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning. -- Nancy Grace
Well, one thing, you got to stand in a courtroom and listen to a judge sentencing you to 25 years in prison before you realize that freedom of expression can no longer be taken for granted. -- Larry Flynt
A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the judge enforces the proper courtroom procedures - a trial in which every assumption can be challenged. -- Harry Browne
Having a Congress with a more diverse educational and professional background would serve the country well. And given the budget challenges facing America today, we might benefit from a few more cold, calculating problem solvers, and fewer courtroom impresarios. -- John Sununu
When Orson Welles was acting in 'Compulsion,' the director Richard Fleischer let him just take over and direct the courtroom scenes. To be able to see Welles - who knew more about directing than anyone - direct himself and the other actors, it was unbelievable and unforgettable. -- Robert Osborne
I remember in high school thinking that I wanted to be a lawyer, and now I realize I saw that movie 'And Justice for All' when I was a kid and thought, 'That's what lawyers do, and I want to get up and yell and scream in the middle of a courtroom.' -- Aaron Douglas
I think if somebody is so set in their ways about what they feel about something - and you get this a lot in academia, of course, and also different sorts of journalism too - you're going to sweep under the carpet the facts that don't suit your thesis. And I think that happens quite a lot in the courtroom, for instance. -- Jon Ronson
I love being in a courtroom. -- Kamala Harris
Honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas. -- Gabriel Macht
I really don't miss the trials and courtroom appearances. -- Marcia Clark
Well, honestly, I'm not a massive fan of courtroom dramas. -- Gabriel Macht
The world is a courtroom, but your life is the judge. -- Uche Okafor
And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion? -- Pablo Neruda
I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade. -- Nancy Grace
Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom. -- Laurence Stallings
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom. -- Assata Shakur
As for being responsible or irresponsible, we don't recognize those notions, they're for policemen and courtroom psychiatrists. -- Gilles Deleuze
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. -- David Souter
I read a lot when I'm away. I love courtroom dramas and I'm always looking for new authors. -- Bruce Forsyth
Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. -- Lance Ito
The flagrant disregard in the courtroom of elementary standards of proper conduct should not and cannot be tolerated. -- Hugo Black
I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me. -- Dominick Dunne
Somewhere "out there," beyond the walls of the courthouse, run currents and tides of public opinion which lap at the courtroom door. -- William Rehnquist
I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk. -- John E. Jones III
It was so nice to go into this fake courtroom [on Ally McBeal]. I immediately went up into the judge's chair. Nice view. A preferable perspective. -- Robert Downey, Sr.
I don't know that I could do a procedural legal drama and spend all my time in a courtroom talking legal jargon that I don't necessarily understand. -- Lucas Till
The world is not a courtroom There is no judge no jury no plaintiff. This is a caravan filled with eccentric beings telling wondrous stories about God. -- Saadi
Creationists who want religious ideas taught as scientific fact in public schools continue to adapt to courtroom defeats by hiding their true aims under ever changing guises. -- Eugenie Scott
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie. -- Barry S. Strauss
I was interested in getting courtroom experience. When I was a young lawyer, the only way I could get real courtroom experience was in the criminal law field. -- Robert Shapiro
When I appear in the Chicago courtroom, I want to be tried not because I support the NLF - which I do - but because I have long hair. -- Abbie Hoffman
You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words. -- Charles Manson
Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos. Or if you could instruct people to disregard what you just said, like in a courtroom. -- Sophie Kinsella
Jack Abramoff is going to testify against some of the other weasels in Congress. A lobbyist testifying against congressmen? How many Bibles are going to burst into flames in that courtroom? -- Jay Leno
I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it. -- Steven Seagal
As a novelist, I like the contained drama and complexity of the courtroom, though I don't watch those shows on TV. I prefer the hospital shows because I wanted to be a doctor. -- Elizabeth Strout
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth; in the living room, sometimes you need anything but. Often. -- Judith Martin
And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself. -- Scott Bakula
One of the local reporters assured me Garrison would put in an appearance for the cross-examination, but as the courtroom settled down and the rear doors were closed, there was no sign of him. -- James Kirkwood
If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail. -- Mike Tyson

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