"Law is an imperfect profession in which success can rarely be achieved without some sacrifice of principle. Thus all practicing lawyers -- and most others in the profession -- will necessarily be imperfect, especially in the eyes of young idealists. There is no perfect justice, just as there is no absolute in ethics. But there is perfect injustice, and we know it when we see it."

-- Alan Dershowitz

#Eye Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #Law Quotes

“Olympic officials have disqualified a champion race walker after determining that he was doping. They disqualified him. The man said getting caught doping is almost as embarrassing as getting caught being a champion race walker.”
“A terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western world - it may be in the United States of America - that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event.”

Source : "General Tommy Franks". Interview by Marvin R. Shanken, www.cigaraficionado.com. December 2003.
“We tend to make up the people we fall in love with”

Source : Joyce Johnson (2014). “Bad Connections: A Novel”, p.34, Open Road Media
“If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.”

Source : Edith Konecky, Alix Kates Shulman, Tillie Olsen (2001). “Allegra Maud Goldman”, p.118, Feminist Press at CUNY
“I am an interpreter of interpretations”

Source : "Propaganda trumps journalism in conservative media climate reporting" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. October 15, 2015.
“When you confront a problem you begin to solve it.”

Source : "Trying to Build the Business Case for RFID?" by Mark Roberti, www.rfidjournal.com. February 28, 2005.
“I really enjoy just being an actor. It's fun to be surprised by someone else's writing and to collaborate in creating a character and to leave all the hard decision-making to some other room full of suckers!”

Source : "'A Real Person Who Has Real Thoughts and Feelings'". Interview with Stephanie Palumbo, logger.believermag.com. February 29, 2016.
“I still feel like I gotta prove something. There are a lot of people hoping I fail. But I like that. I need to be hated.”

Source : "Howard Stern and the Satellite Wars". Interview with Ana Marie Cox, www.wired.com. March 01, 2005.

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