Among them, Daren Johnston, a frequent flyer who tells me his latest travel horror story.
The best compliment I get is when I meet someone who tells me they have heard about me from someone else.
This is the Kurzweil who tells me, as we're sitting in the unostentatious offices of Kurzweil Technologies in Wellesley Hills, Mass.
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"If I wanted to make a similar product, it tells me who's capable of producing it, something that otherwise would have taken a long time to put together, " Aaron says.
Andy Grignon, who worked on the first iPhone, tells me all the time about how Jobs would kill a project or send it back for more work.
When I ask her about combining motherhood with a high-powered career, she tells me that the women who came before her gave her confidence that she could do both.
Another man, who works for a Dutch IT firm, tells me the arrival of foreign firms is having a positive impact.
As we walk, she tells me about the many women who have desperately approached her for a job since she opened her store.
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My instinct tells me they have the mix of folks who are culturally connected influencers.
His shoes don't have a look, he tells me, "because the person who buys custom-made shoes does it for himself, not to show off. (Unless you're a rock star.)" But there's a distinctive sensibility to his work: imagination reeled in by disciplined line--even the model with the partial red-suede upper.
Teresa, who I sit next to on an EasyJet to Madrid, tells me that the protestors in Spain will form a human cordon around the Spanish Parliament.
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"A lot of coloring-in pencils have been donated, crayons and paper, " Tamara tells me before Angela interrupts to introduce a man who has just arrived with the offer of a self-contained flat beneath his home.
Wilson Banks, the present day chaplain tells me there are still two or three lifers at Cummins who were there over 40 years ago when the Man in Black came to visit.
Unlike many men, who prefer not to let their competitive edge be known, my experience tells me that most female entrepreneurs are willing to share their secrets to success in order to gain tips from other successful business people and even to help give a newbie a leg-up.
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"You know, there's nothing that makes my day more than getting an e-mail from some random person in the universe who just bought an iPad over in the U.K. and tells me the story about how it's the coolest product they've ever brought home, you know, in their lives, " Jobs said at the All Things Digital conference in 2010.
He tells me he's got two daughters married to Italians, who live in Tuscany.
Dave tells me the biggest hassle of owning apartments is not single mothers who fall behind on rent payments, as community activists would have you believe.
Raymond tells me the lot came to her from a private seller in LA who typically bought clothes in multiple sizes.
In fact, she tells me that she cannot currently afford to employ all of the women who come to look for a job with her.
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One of the first kids he met was Chris Bonilla, who graduated from Columbia University two years ago and now works for YES. Bonilla tells me that he first thought Eisner was there to discipline him.
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She excitedly tells me about the different types of hats, where they were made and who the most popular buyers are.
She tells me its especially important for her since she comes from a family of people who make their living on farms.
An excited Downing Street advisor tells me that this will become a focal point for the creative and technology types who inhabit the streets of Shoreditch and the fringes of the City.
He tells me maybe 11 or 12 at night but he has to be available to receive outsiders who might want to come in at any time, day or night.
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"My gut tells me we're bigger, " says Brad Skerritt, the Whistler pub's manager, who backed down when he learned O'Hanlon's expects to go through nearly twice the 25 kegs Dubh Linn Gate anticipates selling Saturday.
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Something tells me the days of customer service treated as a corporate backwater will be as distant as those customers who actually used to write complaint letters, private letters that had no audience, to corporate headquarters.
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