Still, Barack Obama has long seemed in a class of his own when it comes to his self-confidence, seemingly born of a charmed life of extraordinary opportunities and, by and large, a lack of accountability for his actions.
The self-taught, Mexican-born dog trainer has parlayed his talent for calming even the most vicious of dogs into a hit TV show, a series of best-selling books, and a mass market line of collars, leashes, beds and pet food.
Zuckerman is self-made, the Montreal-born son of a tobacco and candy wholesaler.
Christopher Doyle is a self-taught Sydney-sider who was born in 1952 but who has spent most of his life in Hong Kong.
More important, however, nationalists seem to have gained a political self-confidence that unionists now lack, born of both war-weariness and faith in the leadership of Sinn Fein and the moderate Social Democratic and Labour Party, the largest nationalist party.
Born out of an agency, profitable, and self-funded with 60 employees, eTrigue helps marketing build more intelligent social and traditional media campaigns.
The PCOM was born in the late 1930s as a desperate act of self-defense by West Texas cotton farmers, who at the time could hardly give their seed away.
Until 15 September, the gallery is showcasing the works of Hasan and Husain Essop, fraternal twin brothers born and raised in Cape Town whose photographs probe the tension between the self and others.
Dr Mahathir, himself born into the family of a struggling small-town headmaster, is a self-made Malay politician, in contrast to the aristocrats who dominated after independence from Britain in 1957.
The boy was born, and the little triad was sighted on Seventy-eighth Street, always self-reliant and self-contained, always in a hurry.
"Of a population of 75.4 million self-identified Catholics in the US, 22.2 million (30%) were born outside the United States, " he says.
As a self-employed video producer, maybe I should have worried about expenses after the baby was born, since I had no paid maternity leave.
He was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois and died in 1961 in Idaho of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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For now this self-described "boring couple" say they look forward to the day their children would be born and raised in a post-DOMA world.
In sum, it appears Googleopoly has grown so accustomed to being able to dictate to everyone which information they should accept as most relevant, that they have scant self-awareness when their message does not pass the laugh test with a principled audience that was not born yesterday.
Committee members include Brooksly Born, a former CFTC head, Jack Brennan, former head of Vanguard, Richard Ketchum from the self-regulatory group Finra (which oversees the stock exchanges), and David Ruder, former SEC chairman.
With German unification and the arrival in power of a new generation of leaders born after 1945, the French realise that Germany is shedding many of its former complexes, becoming more self-assured, assertive and nationalistic.
The new saint, born in northern Spain in 1902, in his earthly days was a priest of forceful personality, much self-flagellation and attractive ideas of the personal sanctity that the lay Christian could achieve in ordinary life.
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