“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
“The relevant question is not whether back then a few extraordinary individuals could overcome a system strongly weighted against them or whether today an admittedly far greater number requiring far less talent can succeed. The real question is whether it's harder for the people in this audience to succeed be they extraordinary, average, or below average. If it is, and… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
“Let us continue to hone and hone the methods by which man hangs his fellow man and be done, once and for all, with… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“The real problem is I'm greedy. I want complete, utter, unceasing bliss. But I don't want to fall into it either. If happiness were money I wouldn't want to win the lottery. I want to accomplish it, urn it as John Houseman would say. I want it to be an achievement because I want to be in control of my… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
“And far away in goddamn L.A. or Madison Avenue is the prick who decided that Skittles would sell more quickly if they promised Jalens… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“It's hard to imagine any group of people being held in less esteem than we are by our clients. The overwhelming majority of them feel that we are either bumbling incompetents--after all if we're otherwise why aren't we in private practice making real money?--or, even worse, actively conspiring with the DA against them as evidenced by the fact that we… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
“Look, people need to conform the external reality they face daily with this subjective feeling they likewise experience constantly. To do this they have two options. First, they can achieve what passes for great things. Now the external reality matches their feeling; they really are better than the rest and maybe they'll even be remembered as such. These are the… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
Vote? What's so fun about voting? You should never vote, everyone knows that. If you vote and your guy wins you can't later complain… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“And if you learn only one thing from the ensuing maybe let it be this: the police were not merely interested observers who occasionally witnessed criminality and were then basically compelled to make an arrest, rather the police had the special ability to in effect create Crime by making an arrest almost whenever they wishes, so widespread was wrongdoing. Consequently,… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share
“But insensate Time is nothing if not cruel and heartless. It corrodes then destroys, so that the man you literally and figuratively looked up… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
“I know this is going to sound weird but this kind of love is almost too intense. It hurts a bit. It feels almost… — Sergio De La Pava Copy Share Image
