Andrew Tobias Quotes

There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

Andrew Tobias

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• Iowa has sent notice that the Republican nominee for the next president of the United States will not be chosen by the media. Will not be chosen by the Washington establishment. Will not be chosen by the lobbyists. But will be chosen by the most incredible powerful force, where all sovereignty resides in our nation by we the people.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Powerful
  • Media

• Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Time
  • Alone
  • Upside Down

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Death
  • Words
  • Autobiography

• Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Learn
  • Being
  • Realize

• We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Through

• When I look back at that freedom of childhood, which is in a way infinite, and at all the joy and the intense happiness, now lost, I sometimes think that childhood is where the real meaning of life is located, and that we, adults, are its servants - that that's our purpose.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Life
  • Real
  • Freedom

• There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Great
  • Too Much
  • Then

• Fate was dealing from the bottom of the deck.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Fate
  • Bottom
  • Dealing

• It's not my ambition to be a big star.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Star
  • Ambition
  • Big

• Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Friend
  • Profession
  • Possession

• I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Up
  • Women
  • House

• The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Small

• Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Hit

• I also like to look at the dynamic that takes place between religion and science because, in a way, both are asking the same questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we here? Where are we going? The methodologies are diametrically opposed, but their motivation is the same; the wellspring is the same in both cases.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Why
  • Science
  • Religion

• I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Grief

• My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

  

  Ben Stein
  • Feeling

• I don't like those artificial air fresheners. They just smell so fake. It's too much.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Air
  • Fake

• I first came to cinema as a passionate filmgoer, when I was a child. Then, when I was a very young man, I became a film critic precisely because of my knowledge of cinema. I did better than others because of this. Then I moved on to screenwriting. I wrote a film with Sergio Leone, 'Once Upon a Time in the West.' And then I moved to directing.

  

  Dario Argento
  • Time
  • Knowledge

• Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people to work were all described, in one way or another, as 'socialist.' Yet, these programs have become the fabric of our nation and the foundation of the middle class.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • People
  • Work
  • Job

• The irony is that it was tougher to rent a car from Cerberus when it owned Alamo than to buy a semi-automatic. To rent a car, one had to provide ID, a drivers' license, and get insurance coverage. To buy a gun? Cash and carry, from the back of a station wagon at a gun show. No concerns about downstream liability or risk.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Car
  • Risk
  • Gun

• I have always believed that chemistry can't be created between two people. You either have it or you don't. The script can only enhance it.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • People

• I had a Commodore, and then I remember getting a Nintendo for Christmas and it being a total game-changer. And the hours that I would spend playing the video game and trying to convince my mother that it was improving my hand-eye coordination. It was a worthy use of time. It made my hand-eye coordination better!

  

  Lee Pace
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Remember

• There are only two things as complicated as insurance accounting and I have no idea what they are.

  

  Andrew Tobias
  • Insurance