Andrew Tobias Quotes
What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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Leading from behind doesn't work.
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The only dead bodies from marijuana are in the prisons and at the hands of the police. This is ridiculous.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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My biggest fears aren't with my work. My biggest fears are walking through hospital doors. Once you can face that, being fearless about your work is easy.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
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America must be a light to the world, not just a missile.
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Don't misunderstand good manners for passivity.
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With our knowledge of modern-day genetics, we realize that it was possible for God to place the potential for all people throughout history into the genes of Adam and Eve when He created them.
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Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.
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We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.
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The United States government first learned of the diversion of the W-88 nuclear warhead design in late 1995.
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A lot of people in government don't really read books at all.
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My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
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Most of the stress we feel here in Silicon Valley is self-inflicted.
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I feel I'm doing God's work switching people from group plans to individual insurance.
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Health care is very different from other sectors of the economy in several respects, one of which is the fact that the risk can be very high beyond people's ability. That leads to insurance.
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What kind of bank gives back 65 percent-often less-of what you deposit? Indeed, when you compare the services of a bank and an insurance company, common sense suggests something is out of whack.
