"Most people ask questions because they want to know the answer; lawyers are trained never to ask questions unless they already know the answer."

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Source : Lani Guinier, Michelle Fine, Jane Balin (1997). “Becoming gentlemen: women, law school, and institutional change”, Beacon Pr

Lani Guinier

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“Forgiving the people that hurt us most allows us to heal from the wounds they left.”
“The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.”
“Each person has a literature inside them.”
“People should go to the works and experience them. Because just having an idea or picture in mind is absolutely not the experience that's necessary. Even just landing in Albuquerque or Salt Lake City or Las Vegas was immediately part of the experience. And then you'd get in a car from the airport and take these very long trips - in Michael Heizer's case, it was three hours by car to get to his work. And then there's walking around and into the piece and seeing it from different angles. The kinetic experience of being a part of it physically was very important for me.”
“I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I don't think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.”
“It's not enough to be the best at what you do. You must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.”
“Overlapping shapes are a safer indication of depth than is linear perspective.”
“I'm not sayin I'm a pothead, cause I'm not. I'm just sayin that I smoke a lot.”

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