Amal Clooney

“I wanted to do well academically. But it was equally important to do things in an effortless manner.”

“If you're a woman lying on the beach in the Maldives, you might want to know that a kilometer away, another woman is being flogged. And you might want to find your own way to protest that.”

“My name means 'hope' in Arabic, and I was born when there was a war in Lebanon.”

“A horseman's head is in Athens, and his body is in London: Poseidon's torso is separated between Greece and the U.K. This means that they cannot be celebrated and appreciated as a whole in t...”

“There is lots of my work that takes place behind closed doors that is not ever seen.”

“Locking up dissenters does not reduce dissent - it fosters it.”

“Sentencing a political opponent to death after a show trial is no different to taking him out on the street and shooting him. In fact, it is worse because using the court system as a tool of...”

“I think it's important for tourists to know the facts of what's happening in the Maldives. I don't think people realize that there's a flogging taking place a kilometer away when they're sun...”

“If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily...”