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...particularly ambitious person, believe it or not, and I am certainly not a driven person. I am a hard worker -I was always told by my parents that luck was the residue of hard work." -Change Nation podcast...
...Never going to happen. If you met him in the last few years of his tenure as CEO of Time Warner, you'd know the reason: he doesn't want to work that hard. Those New York business leaders who are trying to convince him to follow in the footsteps of Michael Bloomberg need to find another horse to ride." -Joe Nocera of the New York Times, July 11, 2008, on the odds of Parsons becoming mayor of New York City...
...true: saying you were a self-published author used to be like saying you were a self-taught brain surgeon. But over the past couple of years, vanity publishing has become practically respectable. As the technical challenges have decreased--you can turn a Word document on your hard drive into a self-published novel on Amazon's Kindle store in about five minutes--so has the stigma. Giga-selling fantasist Christopher Paolini started as a self-published author. After Brunonia Barry self-published her novel The Lace Reader in 2007, William Morrow picked it up and gave...
...professional football players. But Cowher ended the Columbus speech with a great line: "You can't allow history to determine your future. But you can let the future determine your history." I'm not exactly sure what that means, but it did make me want to hit someone really hard while they're running for a field goal. (See pictures of Super Bowl entertainment through the ages...
...more fun. The problem is that very often a President's past--and even his campaign rhetoric--is not prologue. In 1916, Woodrow Wilson pledged to keep the nation out of war; in 1940, Franklin Roosevelt promised to do the same. Richard Nixon spent his career as a die-hard anticommunist, but in the White House, he opened relations with China and ushered in détente with the U.S.S.R. George W. Bush once said America shouldn't tell the world what...