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What actually happened: he forced me to play golf with him for hours when I visited on Saturdays, even though it seemed only to make him miserable.
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But tears brimmed in his eyes as he told me how he was forced - again, in Turkey - to have a kidney removed.
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Having walked around it about seven or eight times, he finally turned to me and told me that when he was 23 he'd been forced by his dad to go through schooling, college and he ended up becoming a lawyer.
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"It forced me to think, " he recalls.
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He's certainly qualified, and obviously it has forced me to look at race I've never looked at before.
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"Heart problems forced me to look for a less stressful occupation, " he says as he lights a cigarette, inhales deeply, and coughs.
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That said, I have spoken to big investors, who tell me that they were generally impressed with his performance before he was forced to bow out - and would be happy to have him back, so long as he works in a way that doesn't burn himself out.
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"You forced me into a corner and gave me only one option, " he said in one of the videos.
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"I also want my vacation time back that they forced me to burn up for something I didn't do, " he said.
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He famously responded, "I'm just hoping the coach doesn't dismiss me, " a one-liner he came to regret when Tressel was later forced to resign.
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"The tendency during the campaign has been for Bush not to attack, or, if he was forced to attack, to go back positive as quickly as possible, " one GOP insider told me.
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He told me a story about a client who, having bought her first pair of his heels, was forced to slacken the pace of her morning walk.
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