Chan, 54, is also quite candid about the fact that he doesn't like most of the Hollywood films he has made.

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Shelton is more candid: If your armed forces don't have the capability to carry out their missions, he told Congress this week, you can either increase the capabilities or decrease the missions.

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It wouldn't be much better for Vivendi executives who have been candid about their disinterest in NBC Universal, an asset they've publicly dubbed "non-core"--and, perhaps more poignantly, their desire to off-load it to get "more headroom, " as Vivendi Chief Financial Office Philippe Capron put it at a conference in Spain last week.

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Ideally the public would possibly forgive a mistake or two if politicians were candid about it, but that culture doesn't exist.

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An SEC-regulated supermarket would have the same naughty foods, but they wouldn't sell quite as well, because their labels would be brutally candid.

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Mr. Dickey wasn't under quite as much scrutiny, but he still found it difficult to be candid after a rough game.

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Now profiled in The New Yorker, we're given a candid and unique insight into the world of George Hotz, whereby his own admission, he wasn't motivated by an ideology so much as boredom and the desire to control a system.

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