Top 40 David Boies Quotes
#1. Like everyone, I was a huge fan of David Boies, and from what I knew about him, I thought he might 'get' me. So I sent him an email. I said I want to practice law but that I didn't want to stop writing and I asked if there was any way I could practice law for him.
Elizabeth Wurtzel
#2. It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that the district court articulated in the DOMA case and in the Perry case to all Americans in all 50 states.
David Boies
#3. Obviously I'm a lawyer; I like to have cases.
David Boies
#4. When you think of Napster, you think of music. But the first thing that struck me was that this was an important case not only for the music industry but for the whole Internet.
David Boies
#6. You wouldn't go to a hospital, you wouldn't go to a law firm where the doctors and lawyers were not retained on merit: where they all had tenure regardless of competence. Parents feel the same way about schools that they send their children to.
David Boies
#7. I like to think of mathematicians as forming a nation of our own without distinctions of geographical origin, race, creed, sex, age or even time ... all dedicated to the most beautiful of the arts and sciences.
Julia Robinson
#8. Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it's no wonder. We're storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?
Brian Greene
#9. But then I quite enjoy when something goes wrong, because when I watch DJs that take it very seriously, it's nice when you make a mistake and laugh about it.
Peter Hook
#10. I win virtually every case I should win, and I win a number of cases that people think I shouldn't.
David Boies
#11. It was important for the Supreme Court to say it's a matter of constitutional law that everyone is equal, to say everyone is entitled to the dignity that comes from being married to the person you love.
David Boies
#12. I think there are patterns of the aftermath of colonization that you see echoed in cultures and communities across the world.
Hanya Yanagihara
#13. But I'd say my best boss was Tom Barr, who was a partner at Cravath, Swain & Moore in the 1960s. It's because I learned so much from him.
David Boies
#14. It's a matter of priorities. Do you want to win, or would you like to sleep? Do you want to win, or would you like to take a day off?
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#15. Most people are balancing 10 or 20 priorities. I have two. My family and my work.
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#16. We're lawyers. We present the arguments, and the court sorts out the merits.
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#17. We're now segregating our schools based on economics; we're segregating our schools based on where a child's parents live. And it has the same corrosive effect of destroying people's opportunity as racial segregation did.
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#18. The self-made man is often proud of a poor job.
Ethel Mumford
#19. In any profession, whether it's teachers or doctors or lawyers, the more we say we're not going to evaluate those people on the merits, I think that's when the profession goes into decline.
David Boies
#21. The thing you hate about yourself tends to be the thing that everyone likes about you.
Nicole Kidman
#22. My biggest struggles have been my biggest teachers.
Kathryn Budig
#23. Unlike people of my generation, my children and my grandchildren have grown up living with, knowing, people who were outwardly gay and lesbian. And they have learned that they're just like us ... And when you see that they're just like us, the rationale for discrimination melts away.
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#24. Here you have a new technology, and if that technology is going to work, you must allow people to provide central indexes of the data. It's just like a newspaper that publishes classified ads.
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#25. The Audio Home Recording Act directly says that noncommercial copying by consumers is lawful.
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#26. We put fear and prejudice on trial, and fear and prejudice lost.
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#27. A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#28. Napster's only alleged liability is for contributory or vicarious infringement. So when Napster's users engage in noncommercial sharing of music, is that activity copyright infringement? No.
David Boies
#29. She crawled on top of him, naked and warm and soft, smelling like a miracle that had saved him from a lifetime of aloneness.
Patricia Briggs
#30. It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.
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#31. While I agree completely that attracting good teachers is difficult, and we need to spend more time doing that - in part by paying them more money - I don't think there's any evidence for the idea that somehow tenure attracts good teachers. In fact, I think the evidence is to the contrary.
David Boies
#32. I made a penny for each paper delivered every day, plus 2 cents for Sunday papers. I had 120 customers. For a 10-year-old kid in the 1940s, that was a lot of money.
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#33. I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.
David Boies
#34. I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.
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#35. We spark, angel. We spark so bright, and I always thought I'd woo you nice and slow and you'd adore me. But you only ever see the worst in me, and there's so much worst to see.
Kit Rocha
#36. I live around dudes all the time so I've heard millions of stories about how they go through a breakup and then the girl turns absolutely crazy. I always thought growing up like: "No, I won't be like that - when I go through a breakup I'll be cool."
Hayley Williams
#37. One of the things that the court held in Brown v. Board of Education is that government can't impose a badge of inferiority on some of its citizens. Yet that is exactly what Proposition 8 does with respect to gay and lesbian couples in California.
David Boies
#38. If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is minor and the enemy's position weak.
Sun Tzu
#39. We must bring the rule of law to its full fruition in the United States, and when we do, we will have achieved the goals and rhetoric of our Founding Fathers.
David Boies
#40. It is human nature to favor individuals and institutions who we know or for whom we feel responsible.
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