Yesterday, Snowball and I worked as Santa elves and I got excited when he started saying things like, I'd follow you to Santa's house any day, Crumpet.

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It was a competition that I got so excited I started tearing up before it began, which never happened before.

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"I got really excited, " she said.

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"It's a little sad for me, last year, because I'm very excited I got traded to New York, " Pineda said.

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"I stumbled, my legs gave out on me and I got over-excited, " said Demus.

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The more I talked about the job with my new partner, the more excited I got.

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"I think he got a little bit excited, " Mr Tancred said.

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"I'll be candid with you: I was excited and knew that we got piece, " Self said.

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"When I found out, I was excited because I felt like it was a reset button and we got to really start from scratch and explore more things, " she explains.

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"I think we got into a little trouble getting excited about the technologies before we thought through the consumer, " says Lafley.

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The Rise Of Artificial Intelligence: As I pointed out in an earlier post on Forbes, although Apple was the company that first got everyone excited about artificial intelligence (AI) on mobile phones when they launched Siri, they have fallen way behind in this area and show no signs of progress.

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