George J. Mitchell Quotes

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

The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it's constantly this fire at my heels.

The great break of my literary career was going to law school.

I had a very good friend who was two years older than I was, and she was in law school, and she said, 'It's a great thing to do when you have no idea what you want to do.' And she was right. I learned a lot, I practiced law for 10 years. I've never looked back once I stopped practicing law, but it was a really good experience.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

When I went back to New Hampshire after graduating from law school, my plan was to go work for a private firm because I had to pay some student loans off and make money and really just be in the private practice of law. Which can be very rewarding.

I don't know what I'm going to do with my law degree. Hopefully I'll get the law degree - that's the first step.

My intent was to go to law school... And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.

The more lawyers there are, the more people are out there to encourage others not to go to law school.

For me, law school was a time of joy and hope. Joy in learning my way around the law - learning how to orbit a problem and to ask myself hard questions and to be asked hard questions. Hope that I could be of some use, to be part of the greater good - to make the world a little bit better.

I'd like to professionally... continue my education and hopefully become an attorney. I think that's the best way to stop the miscarriage of justice that happened to me from happening to somebody else. I don't think it should ever happen to anyone ever again - not one person.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I thought law school was more like the guillotine. I didn't really think I would make it; I just thought this is one of the few ways to potentially get respect, to go to law school.

The law as a profession has provided me with more satisfaction than I ever dreamed.

I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.

After law school, I put on my power suit and worked at a series of law firms. By the time I was at my third in six years, it dawned on me that a traditional law job wasn't for me.

I thought of myself as a soldier who was going to law school.

I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.

Long-term I would love to go to law school.

My father was a lawyer. I was fascinated to become a lawyer, too.

I don't want to be a musician forever. I want to keep going to school and become a lawyer for women's rights and also use the law to help women.

I had no plans to be ever a lawyer, a crime fighter [in school].

My family is all lawyers. Most people when they come on shows like this, "I'm proud of the first member of my family to get a college education."

I studied law, and I was ready to be a lawyer in my country (Italy). Probably it is better for many clients that I changed my direction! But I was happy to study and I was a good student, I finished my studies. And everything that you learn is useful in life.

I got interested in the justice system. If I was, I'd probably be a defense lawyer. I was headed that way, but luckily changed my track to film school.