Well, they said the same thing about me when I started running in New York.

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But I remain as fundamentally optimistic now as I was when I started running in 2007.

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Hanging from 100 feet of rope in the middle of El Cap, I started running back and forth across the smooth face.

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Ever since I started running for this office I've said that we should only extend the tax cuts for the middle class.

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So I started running my mouth and raising money.

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"I started barefoot running five minutes at a time, " she said.

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"I thought his face had seemed familiar but it wasn't until we started the search and he started running through family names that I realised the link, " she said.

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As you point out, I was very active in local government, but I'm really running as a guy that started up a business from scratch, and I think maybe that experience is pretty good in the halls of the U.S. Senate - somebody who hasn't been on the public payroll but has met a payroll.

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Andy and I had been running into each other in the hallway since 1993, when I started my first CBS News internship.

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Back in 1977 I was doing a lot of running, and had already started a mail order business, selling office supplies by mail order catalog.

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While that series was running, I also reported on a fast-growing Facebook page called Save Stargate Universe, started by a social media wizard TheDudeDean.

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