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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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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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'll stop talking about race when people stop being racist.
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I've always found the rain very calming.
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My parents always say I have really good legs. I've worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.
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I always wanted to be an actress. I couldn't imagine being anything else.
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The truth is that the history of Mexico is a history in the image of its geography: abrupt and tortuous. Each historical period is like a plateau surrounded by tall mountains and separated from the other plateaus by precipices and divides.
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While I hold my own political views, it's important not to get too wrapped up in individual candidates and personalities, but instead to focus on the real issues.
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It was impossible for me to believe that conditions in Europe could be worse than they were in the Polish section of Chicago, and in many Italian and Irish tenements, or that any workshops could be worse than some of those I had seen in our foreign quarters.
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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).
