J.R. Stewart Quotes

If you make a mistake as a prosecutor, your mistakes go home, whereas if you make a mistake defending, they go to jail.

Your goal is to make a better world through the work you do. It's not always possible, and you have to earn a living.

You're working not for the corporate interest, not for the government interest, not for your own self-interest. You have a higher calling.

I took anything that came across my doorstep. I started getting a reputation.

I would never take a case that had to do with abusing children. They're the true innocents.

I couldn't add my talent, which is prodigious, to a defense of someone even accused of hurting a child.

You've got to learn to handle the press because god knows the government does all the time.

Put the strong, masculine figure in a school with tough kids and you have a certain control. It's very demeaning to the kids and very demeaning to the tough, black guy, but that's how they worked it.

You know that question: What do you do when you think the client's guilty? The real question is: What you do when you think a client's innocent?

I spoke in front of a huge gathering in Seattle, and someone got up and said, "I'm just so afraid." I said, "The only way not to be afraid is to join with other people who are also afraid."

There's a lot of active radical thought today but not much action.

There are lawyers who believe in client-centered representation and who are dedicated on the same level I feel I was dedicated.

The prosecution makes all the important decisions: what's charged, how much is charged, whether you can get a decent offer. Every defendant becomes an informant today.

Your home should be a reflection of how you want to live right now, and for the next phase of your life.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

I was a very good cook, and I knew I could build a business.

I invented 'It's a good thing' before you were even born.

When I was incarcerated at Alderson in West Virginia for a five-month term, they had a ceramics class.

It's sort of the American way to go up and down the ladder, maybe several times in a lifetime.

Buttons are the fossils of the sartorial world, enduring long past the garments they were designed to hold together.

Don't be embarrassed by your achievements. Being an overarchiever is nothing despicable. It is only admirable. Never lower your standards.

I don't have time to have friends come and stay, except on weekends in Maine. I invite a lot of people to come to Maine.

I wish I were closer friends with Snoop Dogg.

I must reclaim my good life and I must return to my good works.

Many of my executives have worked with me since the beginning. I can be fair and decisive and encouraging as well as demanding.

I am always asking myself how I can improve the lives of my customers, my colleagues, my shareholders, my family and my friends.

I really do have rules for running and managing a business that have never been formalized before.

I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

If you're doing a recipe on national television, there's really no room for being sloppy or a nonperfectionist.

A lot of TV people buy more than one of an item, in case they spot or stain it, but I don't like buying duplicates - it's wasteful.

I was the second of six kids. I wouldn't say we were poor; we had no money. That's different.

I can keep learning about all the different technologies. It's my most telling characteristic. I'm interested in trying anything new.

I'm never sick. Why get sick? It's a waste of time.

I have cotton or flannel sheets, depending on the weather. They have to be ironed, and I get my bed changed nearly every day.

Bloggers create kind of a popularity. But they are not the experts, and we have to understand that.

I am not a rock star or a movie star; I'm a businessperson. I definitely know who my friends are. I'm much more open and trusting than, say, my daughter is.

I don't think there's any company that has the same tools as Martha Stewart Living does, and people know that. They really love the tools and, if you have the tools, you can pretty much do the craft.

I was a very curious person because of my parents. They encouraged me to be as curious about as many things as I wanted.

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

As you would expect, the loss of freedom and the lack of privacy are extremely difficult... I want you to know that I am well. I am safe, fit and healthy.

Write the book you'd want to read.

I have done nothing wrong.

Larousse has a place of honor on every cookbook shelf in America.

I'm a maniacal perfectionist.

The last place I would ever want to go is prison.

I - I try to do as much as I can, wherever I am. So, at the farm, I'm always thinking of some new project, some new thing I can do.

I had always been content to know that there was more in the living world than we could hope to understand.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

Sometimes, I think, our impulses come not from the past, but from the future.