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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You can't uninvent things, you can only make them obsolete... Ronald Reagan understood that the surest method of neutralising any weapon is to make it obsolete.
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For thousands of years, most marriages were in Stage I-survival-focused. After World War II, marriages increasingly flirted with Stage II-a self-fulfillment focus... Love's definition is in a transition.
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Enthusiasm, if fueled by inspiration and perseverance, travels with passion and its destination is excellence.
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The larger the deductible you choose, the less insurance you are buying. Insurers want to sell insurance.
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I was told when I went for a life-insurance exam when I was 18 that I was not likely to live past 50, so I refused to pay the premium.
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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.
