Experienced trial attorneys tend to rely on instinct when picking a jury. You get an idea of the kind of people that you are looking for and pay careful attention to their answers and body language.


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Everywhere around the world They're coming to America Everytime that flags unfurled They're coming t...
NEIL DIAMOND
You are the sun, ... I am the moon.
NEIL DIAMOND
All of which I agreed to, with the exception of playing on the songs while singing, ... We butted he...
NEIL DIAMOND
We're happy that you're here and that you remember us, ... Remember Me.
NEIL DIAMOND
I made a U-turn and went back 40 years to try to recapture those feelings, ... The major difference ...
NEIL DIAMOND
the hardest part of this whole project. Each song has its own story, its own emotional content, its ...
NEIL DIAMOND
I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I want...
NEIL DIAMOND
the recordings became bigger than the songs, which I came to understand is a backwards way of doing ...
NEIL DIAMOND
It's very difficult for me to say 'I love you' but to sing 'I love you' for me is easier.
NEIL DIAMOND
As he said to all the rich, middle-aged white people, 'We are all God's children.'
NEIL DIAMOND
Of course I liked what Johnny did with 'Solitary Man,'
NEIL DIAMOND
That's show business,
NEIL DIAMOND
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND
It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber.
RUSS DIAMOND
Kind of unspoken, we both agreed to continue working and to get to the next stage, ... which was to ...
NEIL DIAMOND
You have to go out there and give a piece of yourself -- your life, your soul. And you better give t...
NEIL DIAMOND
I'm lucky. Hard work is the key, but luck plays a part.
NEIL DIAMOND
Be as a page that aches for a word/ Which speaks on a theme that is timeless.
NEIL DIAMOND
Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND
How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND
Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND
They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND
Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND
The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND
I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND
They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND
"I am," I said To no one there And no one heard at all Not even the chair "I am," I cried "I am," sa...
NEIL DIAMOND
Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND
This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND
Song Sung Blue took a lot of compressing and refining, and it has one of my favorite lyrics.
NEIL DIAMOND
I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
DUSTIN DIAMOND
Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN
When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you ...
JARED DIAMOND