This would include people like overweight New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who appears to be the very definition of a smart, hard-working guy no matter what side of the aisle you view him from.
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And second because I travel a lot and it became so hard to be the guy who always asked if the food contained gluten.
It's hard not to like a guy who jumps out of his seat to serve sandwiches to fellow executives on the corporate jet.
Ms. Ephron's Mike McAlary is a hard-drinking tough-guy Irish reporter who lets fame and money go to his head and turns into a jerk, and Mr. Hanks, here as always, is too ingratiating ever to let himself become truly unlikable.
The phrases "hard man" or "tough guy" simply seem inadequate.
But it's still slack and amateurish, and unless you have an all-consuming interest in what the newspaper business was like at the tail end of the 20th century, it's hard to see how "Lucky Guy" comes anywhere near passing the who-cares test.
It's hard to sympathize too much for a guy who plays sports for a living and is a millionaire as a result.
The capper: At my going-away party, one tool-room engineer--a guy who had hazed me hard in the beginning--asked if I wouldn't mind talking to his son about going to college.
So instead of folding up his computer and going home like some of our more negative commenters had suggested, inventor, composer, and all around resilient guy Peter Green has been hard at work on the second version of his MacMini Portable.
That type of self-interest screwing customers, homeowners, and investors is applauded as hard work and smart thinking while the poor guy working 9-5 and trying to earn enough to support a wife and kids who finds himself out on the street although he participated in none of this.
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Where once a very clever, hard working Seth McFarlane (creator of Family Guy) had to hardscrabble with networks to achieve distribution, and live in fear of a single person controlling his destiny, in the future these creative people will be able to own their content and capture the value directly as they build a direct audience.
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It is hard to make many judgments based on what some guy says about what some guy said.
And part of the reason you saw such warmth of applause is that, in addition to being an incredible talent and such a hard worker, Denis is also a pretty humble guy.
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Pronounced body roll, combined with that old guy driving position, kept me from pushing too hard through the curves.
Listen to Becoming a Jackal, the debut album by the Irish folk-rock band Villagers, and it's hard to believe it's the work of just one guy.
If I'm a business owner, and I'm saying to myself, right now the unemployment rate is 10 percent, so there are a whole lot of folks who have never been to jail who are looking for a job -- it's hard for me to say, I'll choose the guy who went to jail instead of the person who never went to jail and has been laid off.
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"We like to take very strong bets on specific sectors, but it's hard to find things we're comfortable with now, " Guy says.
Mr Davis, too, has often been underestimated: his lack of technology credentials and regular-guy image have led rivals to dismiss him as a hard-selling dilettante who just got lucky.
Maybe the guy on the night shift hit the bottle a little too hard.
It was hard to see how anyone else would have made the connection between this guy and Eric Robert Rudolph.
Good luck getting a straight answer from any of these three parties (the tech support guy from Dell, in fact, suggested I reformat my hard drive and reinstall Windows 7 if you can believe that).
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Peter stated in court papers that he was always looking up to big brother Bernie, which was not that hard to believe since so many people had a high opinion of the guy for so many years.
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Simpson guy brought me a lot of pain heartache -- I tried so hard with him -- I wanted so to be a good wife.
Pelley is everything Couric was not: an internal hire, relatively cheap (probably), cast from the traditional anchor mold (read: a white guy with a nice head of hair), with a background primarily in hard news.
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People have worked hard to keep it fresh and it's one of the great pleasures to work with a guy like Graeme Fowler who is hugely fun and irreverant, young and vibey.
Mr. RIZZO: OK. When I started coming up as a young jazz pianist in the '50s--and I'm giving my age away here--Bill Evans was the only guy on the scene who did not play in the tradition of the prevailing trend, which was hard bob gospel weird stuff.
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