Maybe, I thought, by reading these other stories, I could understand something about my own.
Growing up, I always took my allowance to the thrift store and came home with armloads of secondhand items I would rip, sew and remake into something all my own.
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"Working at a venture firm, I am getting real strategic advice, and that's not something I could get playing in my own sandbox, " says Ms. Ramamurthy of Battery Ventures.
In an informal poll of my own 20-something male friends, most said staying at home while the wife works would be a dream scenario (eyes glazed with visions of Xbox).
That day in Corvara I experienced something different but equally powerful: An awareness of my own humanness, a sense of privilege.
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Last spring, I felt I needed something from one of my superiors and had to blow my own horn to get it.
The other day I felt I needed something from one of my superiors and had to blow my own horn to get it.
"If I had an option, I'd bring my own containers or get it served on something else, but this is all they give you, " said Pena, who bought lunch served in a plastic foam container from a midtown Manhattan food cart.
But I'm aiming at something rather simpler here - to try and summarise for my own understanding what it is that makes the majority of the British tick, warts and all, and how this compares with the state of affairs in other countries, like Germany, for example.
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My own routine, thanks again to Lorette, looks something like this: get up, start coffee dripping, check emails for emergencies only.
"If you went through the level of destruction that I brought about it my own life, you have this yearning to construct something, " he said in 2011.
Armed with the confidence that I could produce something reasonably authentic without a whole beast and within the confines of my own kitchen, I embarked on my own adventure.
Do I really want to start my own business, or am I just running away from something?
The government's own figures, the government's own decisions, so my answer is the government should actually do something about it.
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"I have given children fruit out of my own lunchbox and it makes such a difference once they have had something to eat, " said Mr Moalt.
What I plan to take with me from this experience is that when my actions do not match my own words- when I am delaying or not pushing forward on something I say I want- there is a reason.
My own opinion, and I stress that this is personal opinion, not something the result of deep academic study, is that the Portuguese economy is in the grips of the professional upper middle classes.
Similar to my earlier attitude toward music, many consumers still feel more of an attachment to something they own vs. something they borrow or stream.
"This is why I became a dressmaker because I could make my own clothes and actually avoid this entire scenario of having to traipse around and find something that may fit without having to compromise, " she says.
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