Andrew Tobias Quotes
The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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I've been just eating very healthy, all organic, no sugar, white flour, nothing artificial. I'm being so incredibly strict... not a lot of meat!
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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I really feel my family is my priority.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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I think management and technology all come into play in building a super-yacht. It is a challenge - a serious challenge.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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Whoever has lost a fight in the UFC and hasn't wanted to fight that guy the next day shouldn't be in the sport.
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Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street.
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Pressure selling is firmly rooted in American economic life, and I'm sorry it is, for it should not be necessary. Some people think part of the panic following 1929 was due to too much pressure in selling.
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Canada is a great country, one of the hopes of the world.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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You'll see me on 'Top Chef' someday. My Midwestern hospitality needs an outlet, you know?
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I read 'Crime and Punishment' years ago and don't recall the details of it, but I do retain a strong sense of the creeping paranoia and panic.
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Living with a conscience is like driving with the brakes on.
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Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.
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Copyright term extension has a simple but compelling enticement: it is very much in America's economic interests.
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One of my biggest intellectual influences in my life was Alex Karp of Palantir.
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The first life insurance societies where formed in England in the years between 1692 and 1720. In America, life insurance became available to the clergy through the Presbyterian Ministers Fund, founded in 1759(still in existence), and the Episcopal Corporation, founded ten years later (subsequently merged).
