Strong personalities who know exactly what they want can be very successful at large universities.
"You've got 53 very strong personalities on a football team, " said Matt Birk, the Baltimore Ravens veteran center.
Braka and Graham are both strong personalities with a bold sense of style and a common interest in nature.
And in a culture which reveres strong personalities, that counts for a lot.
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Jobs and Zuckerberg both have strong personalities, which probably made negotiations between the two an even, and interesting, match.
Mr Mubarak's failure to encourage the emergence of any strong personalities has given rise to all sorts of speculation.
Mr. Jobs long kept the strong personalities at Apple in check by always casting the winning vote or by having the last word.
The arrangement was fraught with difficulties from the beginning, as strong personalities within the locker room and an inability to pick his own front office staff isolated Villas-Boas from the start.
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"It's not a jinx, it's not a hoax or anything like that, we need personalities to go and clear the ball, and win the ball ... strong personalities who want it in the back, " Toronto FC coach Ryan Nelsen said.
Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Fiorello LaGuardia: The mayors of New York City have long been men with outsize personalities and strong personal brands.
In 2012, star personalities continued to be the backbone of strong fundraising campaigns.
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