Alex Flinn Quotes

The practice of the law is a perfectly distinct art.

I think I would have been a reasonably good lawyer. I have a faculty for making sense of mountains of information.

I was a lawyer for 12 years in New York and Sweden.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

I'm a lawyer by training, of course.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

What do lawyers learn in law school? They learn to win... What we've got to start thinking about is how do we solve problems.

And I've always felt comfortable certainly in a courtroom because you're just performing. And there was a time in my life when I thought when I grew up I'd be a trial lawyer myself.

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

I was always interested in law at school; it was a great outlet to argue but not make anyone angry!

I got into law school to supplement my business background. I'm not planning to practice law.

I consider myself sort of like a pseudo lawyer. Like, I'm convinced I can solve every case and argue my way.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Thankfully, I am not a lawyer.

Don’t take the wrong side of the argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

What I learned from clerking for Judge Guido Calabresi and for Justice Steven Breyer was that there is no position, regardless of how wrong you think it is, that does not have some arguments in its favor, and you have to find them. And then, no matter how right your own position is, you must look for the weaknesses in that they are always there. You must be willing to find them and possibly change your approach or your mind on the subject.

It's always been my dream to be an attorney, and I'm that weird breed of human being that loves being in a courtroom.

What is law? Is it what is on the books, or what is actually enacted and obeyed in a society? Or is law what must be enacted and obeyed, whether or not it is on the books, if things are to go right?

The scientific method," Thomas Henry Huxley once wrote, "is nothing but the normal working of the human mind." That is to say, when the mind is working; that is to say further, when it is engaged in correcting its mistakes. Taking this point of view, we may conclude that science is not physics, biology, or chemistry — is not even a ”subject " — but a moral imperative drawn from a larger narrative whose purpose is to give perspective, balance, and humility to learning.

For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.

The law is hard but it is the law.

Most true points are fine points. There never was a dispute between mortals where both sides hadn't a bit of right.

I liked to go to court. I became a lawyer because of the allure of the courtroom, not necessarily to be chained to an office desk.

Now I know that lawyers must live, but I've never been able to understand why they have to live so blamed well!