Andrew Tobias Quotes
Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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Being married to a psychologist, I realize that I learn more from imperfections.
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We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.
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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.
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There's no such thing as too much. If there's too much, then that's a great thing.
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It's not my ambition to be a big star.
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Meek wifehood is no part of my profession; I am your friend, but never your possession.
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I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.
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I'm a believer. I'm one of the few standing before you today from a large financial services company that has not given up on digital currencies.
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Then there's Johnny Pesky, hit me countless number of ground balls and improved my fielding so much.
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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.
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I am against the line and all its consequences: contours, forms, composition. All paintings of whatever sort, figuratives or abstract, seem to me like prison windows in which the lines, precisely are the bars.
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The discharge of a duty from affection is the best solace for sorrow.
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Humans are alive, therefore life must be complex.
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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.
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My first ever-ever professional role was in a television show in England called 'Love Soup.' It starred Tamsin Greig. I just played a small role - I think officially my role was 'teenage boy' - it was one episode.
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I don't have to go to church. The church is within me and the experience is my own. It's my life experience.
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Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.
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I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.
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I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.
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Rule of thumb: The more trimmings an insurance plan has and the harder someone is pitching it, the faster you should run.
