"Life insurance became popular only when insurance companies stopped emphasizing it as a good investment and sold it instead as a symbolic commitment by fathers to the future well-being of their families."

-- James Surowiecki

#Father Quotes #Commitment Quotes #Investment Quotes

“I'd like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And the rest of the world can kiss my ass.”

Source : Last words, February 11, 1992.
“Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.”

Source : Elizabeth Smart (1945). “By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept ; And, The Assumption of the Rogues & Rascals”, Vintage
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
“The difference with doing a play is that you are in control. In film you are in the hands of the director and the editor and the producer”
“One day, you don't feel like doing anything. Nothing interests you, everything bores you. Feel more and more empty inside, more and more dissatisfied with yourself and the world in general. Then even that feeling wears off, and you don't feel anything anymore. You become completely indifferent to what goes on around you... You forget how to laugh and cry - you're cold inside and incapable of loving anything or anyone... There's no going back... The disease has a name. It's called deadly tedium.”
“JK Rowling created seven Horcruxes. She put a part of her soul in every book and now her books will live forever”
“I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Let's acknowledge that men reach for opportunities more quickly and more easily than women. So often as managers, we give the job to whoever starts solving the problem, to whoever jumps in. Since we know men will jump in faster than women in so many circumstances, we have to slow down and encourage more women to sit at more tables.”

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