Word: ego
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...this year, is as big a jerk as he sometimes seems to be. Not that being a jerk automatically disqualifies a person from becoming a candidate these days: anyone with airfare and a website can jump in. But he's the first real estate developer with a skyscraper-size ego to run, a man famous for prompting Marla Maples' tabloid headline BEST SEX I'VE EVER HAD, and for refusing to shake hands for fear of germs. As he shakes mine, I ask him if he's got over this phobia. "I don't mind shaking the hand...
...group is such a good dresser," and while he says he doesn't quite understand the style, he chivalrously carries McNeely's suitcases of Hong Kong suits bought in the Orient. Liang sees the same phenomenon on the singing side of things: "You learn to tailor your ego," he says...
...True, some specialized skills are seen as advantageous, but who doesn't want to earn their helicopter pilot license anyway? The only problem is that one of the most important characteristics of a personal assistant is that the boss and his needs come first, while your deflated ego comes a paltry second...
Morris' bizarre conceit of inserting his fictional alter ego into some parts of Reagan's life story begins in the very first chapter, in which Morris recounts his (apparently real) agony over whether to accept the role as the official presidential biographer. He alludes, confusingly, to having seen Reagan as a youth, and then tells the apparently true story of spending an evening with the Reagans at the White House...
...your most neglected talents. While, granted, they are perhaps neglected because you don't happen to have much talent at all in that area, if these aspects of your identity are never taken out for a twirl, they will sit like a sulky wallflower in the dance of your ego...