Repeat after me: I can feel nervous and still bring my A game.
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"I came in three days later to do my exam, then when I finished exams I had the summer off and carried on with my A-levels after the break, " she added.
This is lower than my a priori expectations.
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Many of you know that I'm a community college professor, and I've had the great privilege over the years of teaching countless nursing students -- and I have to tell you, they're always my A students.
My name is Kirsten Perry (phonetic), and I'm a recent college graduate. (Applause.) My mom is a teacher and my dad is a disabled carpenter, so needless to say, I have accrued a significant amount of student loan debt.
So now, not only do I have to figure out how to balance my life as a mom with my career as a tech CEO, I also have to worry about being perceived as incompetent simply because I breastfed my babies?
And the dive went well, my descent was slowed a little bit because I stopped my sled a couple of times just to be able to equalise and make sure I could equalise and make sure I could equalise that deep.
My father was a teacher, my mother was a homemaker.
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That being said, if I was so inclined, I could probably beg, borrow and steal my way to a down payment and a loan on my red, swoopy dream and have it parked in my driveway in a couple of weeks.
My immune system is a little low and it's taking my body a bit more time to recover from it usually would.
The staff nimbly handled my requests, a bartender graciously accommodated my curveball order of a "nonsweet Mojito, " and a spa front desk attendant called me "milady" as he asked my slipper size--an unscripted moment that was even sweeter when I recalled my first visit.
I've said in this campaign many more times than I know the media, who has followed it, wanted me to say it, that my dad was a milk truck driver and my mom was a secretary.
Although my buy rules had me initiating a few positions on the long side, my interpretation of the risk-reward ratio is keeping my exposure to a minimum and my position sizes small.
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Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor.
Eventually, my father ran a mail-order pharmacy, and my mother became a bone marrow transplant nurse.
Red Hat has made it to a billion my selling a subscription service that provides a stable, supported, distribution of the Linux operating system.
Not a vague, wishy-washy notion that I should "get in shape, " maybe "eat better" or possibly "go on a diet, " but rather a specific long-term plan to enhance my wellness in a way that would not only stick, but fit within the parameters of my busy life as a full-time lawyer, husband and father of four small children.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
Recently, I had a conversation with a few of my colleagues about whether we could accept a bundled payment for patients with thyroid cancer, one of the cancers I commonly treat in my practice as a surgeon.
I'd rather get around on my bike than in a BMW. But to my lasting embarrassment, in my junior year, I traded my friends for a less eccentric crowd.
As a result of my community work, I decided to make a career change and pursue my passion for making a difference in the life of others with a focus on youth development.
The sketch brought a smile to my face, a smile to the face of my two post-Sesame Street-age kids, and, I can only assume, a smile to the face of everyone else watching.
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My father pulled a scavenger's wagon and my mother worked at a sardine factory where she sprinkled sugar, vinegar, and sesame seeds on the fish to be dried.
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Years ago, when my now adult son was a young boy, my wife baked a bunch of French-fries as part of our dinner.
"All I want to say about last week was that it was a brutal week in my life and a lot of my friends' lives, " he said.
This week I refinanced my mortgage at a new, better rate, lowering my monthly expenses with a stroke of the pen.
When I'd booked my ticket to Cairo a few months earlier, I had envisioned a pleasant week and a half spent wandering around the city, meeting up with old friends and gathering material for a novel that was inspired in part by my time as a student at the American University of Cairo.
Attempting to recreate a Janet Jackson video in my bedroom, aged 14, the plastic fold-away chair I was using as a prop snapped shut on my legs like a venus fly-trap.
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