"I would describe it as if I was talking to a contractor about the work I was going to have done and he was describing the work he had done in the past, " Murtie recalls.
"I was 52 at the time, and I had enough money that I was never going to have to work another day in my life, " recalls Kinder.
"I wasn't super convinced I wanted to pay for a procedure I didn't know was going to work, " she said.
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But I made a commitment and a promise to myself that I was going to stop procrastinating and get all my work done in advance.
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Mr. FRED SULTERS (Employee, Springs Industries): Everybody here - my mom told me when I considered going somewhere else to work she thought I was crazy.
When I asked my wife why she was going to work at 10am rather than 9am, she replied that everyone was coming to work late - because it was cold.
"I am not going to lie, it was really hard work, " she told me.
"It was a horrible feeling to know that my life's work that I trained 11 years in graduate school for was going up in smoke due to my health, " she says.
It was like a giant bingo game - and very difficult for the uninitiated (i.e. me) to work out what was going on.
"I was off work for 11 months but I knew I was going to beat it and I stayed positive, " he said.
And certainly the work that I was able to do around the world, going to more than 82 countries, negotiating with governments like Macedonia to open their border again, to let Kosovar refugees in.
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And, you know, so as - I was a little bit, you know, maybe a little apprehensive about whether that was going to work or not.
But didn't it strike you, Mr. LaPierre, that your goal is to reduce violence in this country, and I think back to the reaction after the Oklahoma City bombing, I think back to the reaction after 9-11, nobody said there was one thing that was going to work.
"I think at Nintendo, we realize that any sort of goggle-type 3-D technology was not going to work, " Konno said.
"My game plan going into the match was, instead of trying to win 6-0 6-0, I should try to work on things that are going to be important in the future, like coming into the net more and mixing up my serve, " she said.
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