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If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written the Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause. -- Charles Morgan
The great break of my literary career was going to law school. -- Scott Turow
I know of no title that I deem more honorable than that of Professor of the Harvard Law School. -- Felix Frankfurter
One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now. -- Anita Hill
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review. -- Mara Liasson
Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.' -- Mara Liasson
A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion. -- Barbra Streisand
Yale Law School was the kind of place you went if you felt you needed to go to law school, maybe, for your resume, but you really didn't want to practice law. You wanted to do public policy, or maybe go into politics. -- Robert Reich
I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day. -- Wendy Davis
I was not the midwife of the Law School, but its fraternal twin. -- Norman Lamm
Columbia Law School men were being drafted, and suddenly women who had done well in college were considered acceptable candidates for the vacant seats. -- Constance Baker Motley
Hair matters. This is a life lesson Wellesley and Yale Law School failed to instil. Your hair will send significant messages to those around you. -- Hillary Clinton
In 1969, when I graduated from Harvard Law School, women and minorities made up a tiny fraction of the first year associates accepted by top law firms. -- Jane Harman
Obviously, it's a great privilege and pleasure to be here at the Yale Law School Sesquicentennial Convocation. And I defy anyone to say that and chew gum at the same time. -- Gerald R. Ford
If nothing else came out of all of this debacle over Obamacare, one thing that should is a class-action lawsuit against the University of Chicago Law School for people that had Obama as their constitutional law professor. -- Louie Gohmert
Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
I can tell you about Hillary Clinton's heart. This is a woman, who, after law school, went down to my native South. She went down, after graduating from Yale Law School, to help poor kids, to help disabled kids. -- Donna Brazile
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents' example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions. -- Cory Booker
My father was a golden boy from a very small town. He won a very prestigious law scholarship to NYU Law School, and there in Greenwich Village, he met my mother, who was very young, fresh off the boat from Germany. -- Blake Bailey
I'm an ambitious person, and Harvard makes me feel successful, just having gotten in here. That's the ugly side of why I'm proud of being at Harvard Law School. Another reason is because there's a spirit of serious intellectual endeavor here. -- Scott Turow
My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible. -- John W. Rogers, Jr.
I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty members at the Law School and in the History Department, and to experiencing the rich interdisciplinary environment at the Radcliffe Institute. -- Annette Gordon-Reed
I was raised by my grandparents, who had a little general store. My grandmother, Marion Dunham Bowman, was a graduate of Albany Law School. Although she never did practice law, she kept the house filled with books. It's because of her that I was always reading. -- Joseph Bruchac
I worked my way through law school. -- Brian Sandoval
I was actually going to law school in 1972. -- Frank Shorter
I chose to go to law school because I thought that someday, somehow I'd make a difference. -- Christopher Darden
The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school. -- David E. Kelley
I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world. -- Kenneth Chenault
I was student council president in high school, and even in law school, I was vice-president of the student bar association. -- Demetri Martin
Law school taught me one thing: how to take two situations that are exactly the same and show how they are different. -- Hart Pomerantz
In point of substantial merit the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing or dancing. -- Thorstein Veblen
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. -- Ben Carson
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. -- Ben Carson
Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school. -- Susan Orlean
I've been told by the prosecutors and by my own attorneys I should go to law school. I guess I have a knack for it. -- Monica Lewinsky
I've often thought that when something is hard for you, whether it's going to law school or anything else that challenges you, that's probably what you should do. -- Hillary Clinton
Quitting law school was the most difficult decision of my life. But I felt this great relief that this is my life and I can do what I want with it. -- Carly Fiorina
I thought I would, you know, go to college, get to law school, finish, and then get a job and work as a lawyer, but that proved to be not a good fit for me. -- Demetri Martin
I don't think the Constitution is studied almost anywhere, including law schools. In law schools, what they study is what the court said about the Constitution. They study the opinions. They don't study the Constitution itself. -- Robert Bork
I spent two years in the Army. And my older brother, who was also a great positive influence on me, encouraged me to think about law school, and I said - well, I didn't have any money. -- George J. Mitchell
I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up. -- Sonia Sotomayor
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood - in high school or law school. Where it ends, I'm not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one's spirituality. -- James McGreevey
As a high school dropout, I understand the value of education: A second chance at obtaining my high school diploma through the G.I. Bill led me to attend college and law school and allowed me the opportunity to serve in Congress. -- Charles B. Rangel
For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I'd come home and go to church and everybody would say, 'Oh, my God. Demetri, you're working at the White House.' -- Demetri Martin
To this day I get mail from women who say, I went to law school because of your song. But I would hate to think out of the wide spectrum of things I have done in my career, that's all I would be remembered for. -- Helen Reddy
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday. -- Dick Gephardt
My wife - to-be and I went to see my father. Only he could answer the two questions before us: Shall we get married now? Shall I begin the practice of law, or continue being the successful wine salesman I had become, working my way through law school? -- Emanuel Celler
I did a lot of theater in school. I thought maybe I wanted to go to law school or be a judge or a politician. And then I just kind of got smitten by the process of rehearsal and working with other actors and those kinds of challenges. And then comedy. -- Rashida Jones
I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime. -- Susana Martinez
Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them. -- Gail Collins
I sometimes think that when he was at Harvard Law School, Mr. Obama cut class the day they got to the separation of powers, 'cause he seems to consider it not just an inconvenience but an indignity that, although he got 270 electoral votes and therefore gets to be president, he didn't get everything. -- George Will
One of the reasons the doctors gave for hospitalizing me against my will was that I was 'gravely disabled.' To support this view, they wrote in my chart that I was unable to do my Yale Law School homework. I wondered what that meant about much of the rest of New Haven. -- Elyn Saks
I've always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I'm reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out! -- Glenn Greenwald
When I'm not the Tiger Mom, I'm a professor at Yale Law School, and if one thing is clear to me from years of teaching, it's that there are many ways to produce fabulous kids. I have amazing students; some of them have strict parents, others have lenient parents, and many come from family situations that defy easy description. -- Amy Chua
When I was little, my parents really only wanted me to be a scientist or a doctor; they had never even heard of law school. I think even these days if you were to tell your mother you want to be a fashion designer, or an artist or a writer, a lot of Asian parents would be alarmed because they don't think that's a secure career. -- Amy Chua
I had loans in law school. -- Ken Starr
I went to law school after college. -- Kevin Heffernan
I debated between law school and divinity. -- Cory Booker
I soon found law school an unmitigated bore. -- Constance Baker Motley
My parents wanted me to go to law school. -- Sasha Alexander
My mother-in-law's from Norway, and she's always liked old-school remedies. -- Lindsey Vonn
I don't really know why I went to law school. -- Emily Giffin
When I went to law school, nobody heard of civil rights. -- Constance Baker Motley
I finished law school in '56, but I was working two jobs. -- David Dinkins
I graduated law school nine months pregnant and didn't take a job. -- Elizabeth Warren
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. -- Ruben Blades
Neither the University of Michigan nor its law school uses a quota system. -- Adam Schiff
Flying from the United States to Tokyo takes approximately as long as law school. -- Dave Barry
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse. -- Tucker Max
When we graduated from college and law school, we had a mountain of debt. -- Jennifer Lopez
I went to law school. I found it interesting for the first three weeks. -- Demetri Martin
I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred. -- Portia de Rossi
I hadn't planned on going to law school. I wanted to study 19th-century Russian literature. -- Marian Wright Edelman
She was pondering the option of law school, the great American baby-sitter for directionless postgrads. -- John Grisham
Without insurance coverage, contraception, as you know, can cost a woman over $3,000 during law school, -- Sandra Fluke
If law school is so hard to get through... how come there are so many lawyers? -- Calvin Trillin
Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do. -- Rachel Sklar
I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law. -- Shannon Miller
Nothing replaces real-life experience. Of course, I say this as someone who went to law school. -- Daniel L. Doctoroff
I've had women come up to me and say I was the reason they went to law school. -- Susan Dey
I went to law school and took a law degree, and counseled all my clients to plead insanity. -- Warren Zevon
I never thought that the long haired, bearded guy I married in law school would end up being President. -- Hillary Clinton
My dad is an attorney. I've always been interested in it. My sons are probably going to law school. -- Rob Lowe
After leaving law school, I intentionally said that I never wanted to hold a job more than six years. -- Alphonso Jackson
As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. -- David Dinkins
When I was 23 and about to go to law school, I thought I'd spend the summer writing a novel. -- John Casey
I'm not versed enough in constitutional law to run for office. I'd have to go back to school or something. -- Zach Galifianakis
I wasn't using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. -- Charlie Trotter
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of 'The Yale Law Journal.' -- Randall Kennedy
I come from a modest background. I put myself through college and law school and a postdoctorate program in tax law. -- Michele Bachmann
This was a time of great intellectual excitement for me. Both college and law school opened up new worlds of ideas. -- Samuel Alito
I thought that if acting didn't work out, I'd have done law school or medical school: probably law to be honest. -- Jesse Williams
I wasnt using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education. -- Charlie Trotter
It is the first law of practical courage. To be in the weakest camp is to be in the strongest school. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I took the LSAT the day 'Jersey Shore' premiered, and after that I was too busy to go to law school. -- Vinny Guadagnino
Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal. -- Al Stewart
The first day I went to law school, I realized I'd made a huge mistake. It was nothing like what I thought. -- Rich Fulcher
I went to law school because I understood what the power of the law is to make a difference in people's lives. -- Maya Harris
My recollection is - and I'd have to confirm this - but I don't recall paying any money to go to law school. -- Joe Biden
My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there. -- Carre Otis
If they don't go to law school, bright college graduates head to Wall Street precisely because they have no real plan for their careers. -- Peter Thiel
I'd love to do a court-room drama. I loved 'Ally McBeal.' That was one of the main reasons I went to law school. -- Rebel Wilson
One of the things I learned in law school is that there's nothing wrong or undesirable or dishonorable or destructive about amending the Constitution. -- Adrian Cronauer
I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it. -- Dan Meyer
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In the school I went to, they asked a kid to prove the law of gravity and he threw the teacher out of the window. -- Rodney Dangerfield
I didn't know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor. -- Carlton Cuse
Law school has been described as a place for the accumulation of learning. First-year students bring some in; third-year students take none away. Hence it accumulates. -- Daniel R. White
The problem for the King is just how strict The lack of liberty, the squeeze of the law And discipline should be in school and state.... -- Robert Frost
At some point in their life, everyone thinks they should go to law school. You may in fact think you want to go to law school now. -- Tucker Max
You basically have to be willing to devote your life to journalism if you want to break in. Treat it like it's medical school or law school. -- Michael Hastings
It is the aim of the modern school, not to treat every position according to one general law, but according to the principle inherent in the position -- Richard Reti
I was in fashion school, my brother has a law background, and my sister-in-law had worked in production, but none of us had a proper fashion business education. -- Alexander Wang
When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street. -- Wentworth Miller
I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone. -- Octavia Spencer
Well, I probably, I guess first became aware of the whole, what I call the nuclear complex or weapons work those kinds of things, right out of law school. -- Tom Udall
I wasn't the class clown, but I was starting to become the "crazy guy" at law school, which is the guy who is not so much "crazy" as "annoying." -- Demetri Martin
We learned after the first semester in law school that it's best never to discuss exams. If notes are compared afterwards, you become painfully aware of things you missed. -- John Grisham
Competition in rowing doesn't just come from other countries. It comes from Wall Street, med school, law school. You think Harvard and Princeton grads want to live in Chula Vista? -- Mike Teti
Even after going to law school, following the footsteps of my father (an accomplished lawyer and judge at the time); I realized that the suit would never replace the kimono! -- Carlos Machado

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