Quotations (11)

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Andrew Beckett: [while lying on a hospital bed] What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean? Joe Miller: [amused,sitting next to him on the hospital bed] I don't know. Andrew Beckett: A good start.
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(a young man in a jersey approaches the prosecutor on a high-profile AIDS discrimination case in a pharmacy) "How's the trial going?" "Excuse me?" "It's a great case. I saw you on TV. I'm a law student at Penn State." "It's a good school,…
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"How many lawyers did you go to before me?" "Nine." "Go on."
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"What do you call a thousand lawyers chained together at the bottom of the ocean?" "A good start."
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"Well, I didn't raise my kids to sit in the back of the bus. You get in there and you fight for your rights, okay?"
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"In this courtroom, Mr. Miller, justice is blind to matters of race, creed, color, religion, and sexual orientation." "With all due respect, your honour, we don't live in this courtroom, do we?"
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"We're standing here in Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, the birthplace of freedom, where the founding fathers authored the Declaration of Independence, and I don't recall that glorious document saying anything about all straight…
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"Have you ever felt discriminated against at Wyatt Wheeler?" "Well, yes." "In what way?" "Well, Mr. Wheeler's secretary, Lydia, said that Mr. Wheeler had a problem with my earrings." "Really?" "Apparently Mr. Wheeler felt that they were…
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"Subsequent decisions have held that AIDS is protected as a handicap under law, not only because of the physical limitations it imposes, but because the prejudice surrounding AIDS exacts a social death which precede... which precedes the…
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"Sir, wouldn't you be more comfortable in a study room?" "No. Would it make you more comfortable?"
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"Explain this to me like I'm a six year old."