Andrew Tobias Quotes
The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line 'You cannot be turned down for this coverage!' are actually saying, ' For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.'
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I didn't grow up with a lot of babies in my life because I only grew up with my parents - I didn't have any brothers or sisters - and I didn't have my family close by.
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He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
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When life catches up with us, we all need space to dream and indulge, so I have created my own special range of bath & beauty loveliness to help you find your happy place.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
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The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
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Movies like that aren't about the visual effects and explosions. They're human stories about family, about life, about death.
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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If you work hard in real life, people tend to get in your way - either from inertia or prejudice - and they stop you achieving things. It's the worst thing about real life compared with sports, where you generally get what you deserve: if you're the fastest guy, you win; there are no other games being played.
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You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?
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The year that 'Lost' started and premiered was, without a doubt, the most miserable year of my life. The level of despair and anguish that I was feeling; I was clinically depressed, and anyone that you talked to who knew me at the time will tell you that.
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I understand that sometimes when you're young it's difficult to remember the difference between real life and what is part of fantasy.
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
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The United States is no longer first in the world in upward mobility. We can reverse that trend by giving our young children an equal start in life as they begin their journey to fulfill the American Dream.
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If an alien visited Earth, they would take some note of humans, but probably spend most of their time trying to understand the dominant form of life on our planet - microorganisms like bacteria and viruses.
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I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me.
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Werewolves are much more common animals than you might think.
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A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.
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Turns out moonlighting as a model is harder than I thought!
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The life insurance policies advertised on the radio with the line 'You cannot be turned down for this coverage!' are actually saying, ' For policies this small, it would cost us more to decide whom to turn down than simply to accept everybody-and make them pay through the nose.'
