Jerry A. Webman Quotes

After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

Jerry A. Webman

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• Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.

  

  Jack Welch
  • World
  • Best
  • Globalization

• Often it seems that there are writers who are their best selves on the page. That Seamus Heaney was as genuine and deeply admirable in person as in his poems was to me a gift, then as now.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Best
  • Gift
  • Page

• I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • People
  • Mistake
  • Courage

• At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.

  

  Yannick Noah
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• I have more to say as a writer than from behind a wok.

  

  Eddie Huang
  • Say
  • Writer
  • Behind

• I don't know what sex appeal is. I don't think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they're seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

  

  Omar Sharif
  • People
  • Know
  • Sex

• The parts of graffiti I like are really antagonizing still - it's not something that a museum would really embrace.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Like
  • Embrace
  • Museum

• I'm into song-writing; I'm into melodies that break your heart a little bit. That's the thing that got me into music; that's what I look for in music for the most part.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Heart

• I didn't choose acting. The universe did.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Universe
  • Acting
  • Choose

• The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up
  • World
  • Down

• It is my policy to deepen the Japan-U.S. alliance and to deepen security and economic relations as well as personal exchanges.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • Security
  • Economic
  • Policy

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• When I first started working on 'Staying Dead,' I got some well-meaning but negative feedback from industry folk because - back in 2001 - epic fantasy was still the big thing, alternate history a tight runner-up.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Up
  • History
  • Negative

• I think I may just enjoy being behind the camera as much as I like being in front of it.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • May
  • Think
  • Enjoy

• It's good fun, yes, but when we play, we take it seriously and want to do well.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Want

• The fact is that we as a party at the Republican National Committee registered 3.4 million new voters in the past two years and brought them into the political process. The president won by 3.5 million votes.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • Political
  • Past
  • Party

• I'm a working musician, so it's what I do. I kind of always have lots of plates spinning, and it's the ones that keep spinning the longest that I end up doing.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • Up
  • Kind
  • End

• Boxing is my true calling. I've found my purpose in life.

  

  Deontay Wilder
  • Life
  • True
  • Purpose

• I think about rodeo every day. I miss it. It's what gave me purpose.

  

  Brady Jandreau
  • Purpose

• When you do something young enough and you train for it, it just becomes a part of you.

  

  Randy Pausch

• Business, numbers, negotiations, all that stuff I wouldn't go near.

  

  Donna Karan
  • Business

• In Pakistan, the right to go to school is not a given. In the more rural areas, a girl is born, married off as early as 9 years old, and basically lives life under the control of men.

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Life
  • Men
  • School

• After all, as a taxpayer, if I'm acting as the insurer against losses, I should have the right to say what risks the insured can take.

  

  Jerry A. Webman