"Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success."

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Source : "On Becoming a Lawyer" by Jeffrey Toobin, www.newyorker.com. June 20, 2013.

Jeffrey Toobin

#Believe Quotes #Giving Quotes #Accomplishment Quotes

“There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids-and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.”
“I wonder how it is that Iâ€™m fooling so many people, Iâ€™m doing one of the most stupid things in the worldâ€¦and people seem to be falling for it.”
“I had been involved in animal welfare groups, but DDAL presented an opportunity to actually create and pass legislation aimed at issues which really matter to so many people. From local spaying and neutering ordinances, to legislation against puppy mills, to standards to prevent animals from being tested for the sake of a new cosmetic, we could - and did - make a difference.”
“They judge lest they be judged.”
“We cannot make good news out of bad practice.”
“I like the idea of making films about ostensibly absolutely nothing. I like the irrelevant, the tangential, the sidebar excursion to nowhere that suddenly becomes revelatory. That's what all my movies are about. That and the idea that we're in possession of certainty, truth, infallible knowledge, when actually we're just a bunch of apes running around. My films are about people who think they're connected to something, although they're really not.”

Source : "Predilections" by Mark Singer, The New Yorker, www.errolmorris.com. February 06, 1989.
“The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.”

Source : "The Liar". Play by Pierre Corneille, 1643.
“I always said that, when I grow up, I want to be like Joss Whedon : I want to have my own world.”

Source : "Amber Benson talks books, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, and being hit on by teenage boys". Interview with Alex McLevy, tv.avclub.com. January 28, 2015.

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