Thane Rosenbaum famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Lawyers have a way of seeing that sets them apart from the rest of us. In some way this special vision makes them invaluable, and in other ways, repulsive. Lawyers are much more focused on rational, logical, and objective criteria to the exclusion of the emotional, subjective, and sometimes irrational reponses to the world. Moreover, lawyers like to show no emotion, and possess a particular disdain for the emotions that are found in others, which has the quality of making them seem inhuman.
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The novelist is the person who spends a lot of his or her day thinking about the human drama and emotional complexity.
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Artists see the world in a very different way than everyone else, and it's important when the artist points a lens at the law.
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Legal ethics is a misnomer ... lawyers conducting themselves legally are not necessarily conducting themselves morally ."...and ..."The zero sum nature of the legal system, combined with the universal adoption of zealotry as the marching orders of practioners and prosecutors, transforms the moral mission of the legal system from one of truth-seeking, storytelling, and justice, to one of fabrication, distortion, and manipulation in pursuit of victory. These victories, however, make us all losers.
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All calls for justice require that victims feel avenged, and revenge is never just if it’s disproportionate.
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Since lawyers are thinkers and not feelers, and their moral development is locked into the rigidity of maintaining law and order, they often come across as impersonal, insensitive, amoral, and not particularly human to the clients they serve.
-- Thane Rosenbaum
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A developed India by 2020, or even earlier, is not a dream. It need not be a mere vision in the minds of many Indians. It is a mission we can all take up - and succeed.
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To pray is to dream in league with God, to envision His holy visions.
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Vision, the hallmark of leadership, is less a derivative of spreadsheets and more a product of the mind called imagination.
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Of what use is a dream if not a blueprint for courageous action.
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Not everyone sees you the way you do. Sometimes our imperfections are what makes us special. - Tripp
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I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.
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If you make action movies, the critics will savage you, and then your movies are outdated the following week with the new wave of special effects.
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Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.
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Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
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What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.
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