"It was my older brother who told me that Billy was missing, " she said.
"I hired private investigators who told me they couldn't tell me who I was married to, " she said.
There were some neighbors with whom I spoke who told me to go down to the Skakel house.
That brings me to the second conversation, with a leading supply chain insurer who told me that they had a problem.
Later on, I said something about being told I could come back after November and she wanted to know who told me that!
Partly this magic was created by my parents, who told me in no uncertain terms that I would never, ever be allowed to own one.
Last Spring, I met with the Dean of a Top 10 MBA program who told me all this noise about entrepreneurship was just that: noise.
What did surprise me, however, was the two Syrians with tribal ties who told me their motivation was to support their own tribes back home.
"On 18 I found my ball in the trees and I'm glad I have a great caddie who told me a bogey was enough, " she said.
Just before seeing him, I met a British journalist who told me he was getting most of his information from overheard conversations in the gents' loo.
"Until now, I organised wedding fairs but while talking to associations and lawyers who told me about the difficulties of divorce, I had this idea, " he said.
"It wasn't like I had a parent who told me I had to root for a certain team or I had to leave the house, " he said.
At our recent annual user conference, I caught up with another senior executive who told me about a new technique his company was using to motivate employees.
Take the example of one hotly-pursued internet entrepreneur who told me that several top tier VC firms were interested in funding his startup, including Accel, Khosla Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
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What does it mean that my brilliant doctor brother, who told me he would live forever, followed suit and died at the age of 46 on his 17th wedding anniversary?
And not far from him there was 24-year old mother of four, Dawn Mosely, who told me in no uncertain words that she'd had enough of the city she'd grown up in.
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While in Japan visiting customers, I met a brilliant project leader for a Japanese engineering firm who told me about how she has eliminated project-related emails by using their project management software.
One of the scientists leading the research is Prof Geraint Vaughan, of the University of Manchester, who told me that however good the models "we can't escape the fact that the atmosphere is chaotic".
Finally, I talked to Yosuke Morishima, a post-doctoral student in micro economics and experimental economic research at the University of Zurich, who told me about a classic behavioral economics study conducted in the mid 1980s.
On the other side of the table was a gentleman who told me that his wife created a community of stay-at-home moms here in Austin that are on standby to get a text when there is an approaching energy crisis.
The most meaningful support I received early on as a CEO was from the dominant board member who told me I was doing great, but I would fail at some things and he would be there for me when I did.
Three times in a little over a week I received unsolicited PR pitches from people who told me I was part of their blogger outreach program and they wanted me to write a piece in Forbes about their content marketing programs.
My teacher was a deeply tanned fellow named Aryeh, who told me he one day hoped to compete for the Israeli Olympic team. (I thought of him four years later, when Gal Fridman's Athens windsurfing victory landed Israel its first-ever Olympic gold).
Since that did not directly answer my question I turned to the Victims Commissioner's Office, who told me there would be further meetings between the minister, Nelson McCausland, and the Commission to discuss "issues relevant to victims and survivors... including that of compensation payments".
On my way back, on January 02, 2012, I was denied boarding by a station manager of Hawaiian Airlines, who told me that the Honolulu airport Immigration Office did not authorize my return as I did not have permission to return to the United States.
For that we must turn to the notorious saga of the bad, bad girl who told me in hushed tones that, while she was staying in a room with two beds at the Setai in Miami, she proceeded to carefully remove the Christian Fischbacher satin sheets from the unused bed, then meticulously remake it so as not to alert housekeeping.
See there's this guy who once told me it's not good to help strangers.
And I've had two patients who recently told me that their oncologist told them that we are all born with cancer cells.
And physical objects need physical benefits: Paul Trowe, whose Leisure Suit Larry revival was successfully Kickstarted, is only one of many kickstartees who have told me how they tried to make as many gifts virtual as possible, to limit the ratio of funds that went straight back into the process of rewarding users.
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People who knew him told me that he had died a colorful death, and I wanted more detail so went looking for news accounts.
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