"I don't feel the need to be something I'm not just for the sake of trying to look cerebral or highbrow, " he says, popping one of his perennial Altoids.
Doing more outside of work gave me perspective on how I wanted my life to look: I wanted my next job to be something that I believed in.
Having made my decision, the weight that has been lifted from my shoulders now hangs heavy on my heart, but I was not elected to this office to be something that I am not.
So this is going to be something that I want to collaborate with all of you on.
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"Although it felt good, I am starting to feel a little as if I ought to be doing something slightly more constructive than what I have been doing for the past six or seven months, " he says.
But when I was working in the area of investment banking I was putting in very long hours and it became increasingly clear to me that if I was devoting that amount of time and energy to something, then I wanted it to be devoted to something that would have a bigger and positive impact on the world.
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"I wanted Jonathan to be happy and to be with smiling faces, something I couldn't give him, " she recalls.
But obviously, there's got to be something else that I'm hoping that I can see before the election in November.
"This is going to be something down the road that I'll be able to tell my friends and kids about, " Hardee said.
"I'll be able to give my fans something I never gave before: a visual show, " Dion said.
However, this study has opened my mind to the possibility that there may be something more to this therapy than I originally thought.
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And it will be really something to see, because I guarantee people will be fighting for position around the first tee to watch Arnold Palmer hit that shot.
It would have to be something truly colossal and I have to say I can't see it.
Initially concerned that this might possibly be due to something I wrote in this column, a different reason is now apparent.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact that I shouldn't be doing this because I am -- according to the law -- doing something wrong.
And I really insisted for this app to be free, because I wanted something that had no commercial value at all, like a pure idea.
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But sometime, after whatever contracts loosen or whoever decides to make the leap, I might be able to do something like subscribe to HBO on my Xbox without having to get a bulky cable subscription.
But to create a pathway so that they can get out of the shadows and contribute to society in a more effective way is something that I consider to be a top priority.
If I tell you something inadvertently that proves to be wrong, I expect to be held to account for that.
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How to reconcile this with some of the traditional values and norms of Islam, that's not for me to dictate, but certainly I think it's something that can be accomplished, and I want to encourage that.
Something neither you nor I would be able to do and something that we would have to follow a very detailed recipe to do ourselves.
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But if I want to get something done, I like to be calm and have a sense of humor about it.
It obviously did great damage to the American reputation and it's something that I think needs to be repaired now.
It was clear that something had to give but I had assumed that something would be the chief executive of News International, Rebekah Brooks.
But I need to say something that might be not you know very politically correct now, but I don't think that we should forget that in the past twenty or thirty years Egypt had a leapfrog in its economy and the achievements of the last period in the economic front should not be forgotten.
When I was very young and everybody's supposed to be really into fashion it wasn't something I was very devoted to.
So if I could change something, I'd be able to sneak around a little bit more.
Anytime I come across something that I think is too good to be true, I get nervous.
If there is something that needs to be investigated I'm sure it will get done.
"I want to be something that brings joy to my family, " he says.
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