"We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians."

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Source : Warren E. Burger (1978). “Trial court advocacy: a checklist of comments”

Warren E. Burger

#People Quotes #Casual Quotes #Electrician Quotes

“For me the music is a vehicle for my lyrics. It's a chance to get some really good words across.”
“Never have I had such assistants to disrobe me, and never have I put off my clothes before such a company”
“We are defined by the stories we tell ourselves.”
“It is natural to man to indulge in the illusion of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, till she transforms us into beasts.”
“The most enlightened people in the world embrace their full potential of light and dark. When you're with people who recognize and own their negative qualities, you never feel judged by them. It's only when people see good and bad, right and wrong, as qualities outside themselves that judgments occur.”
“HIV AIDS is a disease with stigma. And we have learned with experience, not just with HIV AIDS but with other diseases, countries for many reasons are sometimes hesitant to admit they have a problem.”

Source : "Interview with Dr. Margaret Chan". "Talk Asia" with Anjali Rao, edition.cnn.com. April 16, 2007.
“What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsider in my own family? I might have turned out like Aphrodite, and I might still be letting my parents control me because I was hoping desperately that I would be good enough, make them proud, so that some day they would really love me.”
“There's five cameras, I don't know how many people in the audience... depending on where we're taping, there can be anywhere from 300 to 5,000 people, so the contestants are nervous”

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