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So many men have holes in their souls the shape of their fathers. You can pass that on to your kid, or you can do something about it, and I'm seeing a lot of men doing something about it.

About Doing Fathers Holes
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I had never gone to college. I was not from a politically connected family. I had no money of my own. Who is going to do business with you?

Business College Connected Family
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Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.

Case Code Difficult DNA
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Probably the hardest question I get asked is, 'How do I choose between passion and practicality?' I can't answer that. I had to do both. I was passionate about pursuing a career in financial services. But I was also passionate about feeding my child.

Between Both Career Child
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With DNA, you have to be able to tell which genes are turned on or off. Current DNA sequencing cannot do that. The next generation of DNA sequencing needs to be able to do this. If somebody invents this, then we can start to very precisely identify cures for diseases.

Able Cannot Cures Current
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Baby steps count, too, as long as you're moving forward.

Baby Count Forward Long
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I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor.

Africa Because Born Brought
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When you're doing something you're truly passionate about, there is no plan B.

About Doing Passionate Plan
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I cut grass, I did yard work, I did roofing, I cleaned basements to take care of my family.

Care Cleaned Cut Did
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I didn't grow up in a household where dinner conversation was, 'How did the market do today?'

Conversation Did Dinner Grow
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Everything that I learned in the Navy, I took it with me into the next phase of my life.

Everything Learned Life Me
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I think it matters whether someone has a good heart.

Good Good Heart Heart I Think
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No matter what you accomplish, when you're doing something you're truly passionate about... the opportunities are always going to be bigger.

About Accomplish Always Bigger
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My first ambition in life, I made up my mind I was going to become Miles Davis. I studied music, music theory. I played trumpet for nine years. One day, my mother explained, 'You can't be Miles Davis. There's one, and he's got that job.'

Ambition Become Davis Day
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The hardest thing that I had to do every day as a working single parent was child care, to have to leave my child with people that I did not know and hope everything was OK, that was the most painful part of every day.

Care Child Child Care Day
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What can we be in life? Few figures in history have answered this question with as much clarity and moral authority as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Answered Authority Clarity Dr
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Fortunately, our digital age has created some wonderful tools for finding employers and showing your strengths. But when it comes to discovering or keeping a job, nothing beats good old-fashioned face time and up-to-date skills.

Age Beats Created Digital
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If you're lucky enough to have a permanent position, don't feel entitled. Companies value longtime employees' institutional memory, but to be irreplaceable, you must stay invested. Take the initiative and assume new responsibilities.

Assume Companies Employees Enough
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Most of us have heard the saying, 'Cleanliness is next to godliness.' That's a sentiment I value, but another virtue has inspired me to revise that saying. As far as I'm concerned, what's next to godliness is resourcefulness.

Another As Far As Cleanliness Concerned
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Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's your parenting skills, or your compassion. It may be your curiosity, your imagination or unique style of fashion. Even if it seems to be no big deal, the lesson here is we all have unique abilities and talents.

Ability Anything Big Big Deal
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As long as you have a plan for how you'll live, don't let jealous people turn their insecurities into yours.

How Insecurities Jealous Live
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Nine times out of 10, extenuating circumstances aside, I believe that people are where they are by some kind of choice on their part. You need to acknowledge that, 'Hey, I'm here because I steered my horse in this direction.'

Acknowledge Aside Because Believe
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I don't feel like we have to be dirty or anything crazy, but as far as competing, there's no limits.

Anything As Far As Competing Crazy
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Ask any player. You're only as good as your coach allows you to be.

Any Ask Coach Good
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I have been constantly telling people to encourage people, to question the unquestioned and not to be ashamed to bring up new ideas, new processes to get things done.

Ashamed Been Bring Constantly
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Apart from values and ethics which I have tried to live by, the legacy I would like to leave behind is a very simple one - that I have always stood up for what I consider to be the right thing, and I have tried to be as fair and equitable as I could be.

Always Apart Behind Consider
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History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.
Blood Could History Human
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Affection Altogether Attachment Faults
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I may have hurt some people along the way, but I would like to be seen as somebody who has done his best to do the right thing for any situation and not compromised.

Along Any Best Compromised
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Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Deeds Determine Much Our
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I probably have everything that Apple has made and everything Bose has made; I am very loyal to certain brands.

Am Apple Brands Certain
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Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Angry Cruelty Direct Effect
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No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Ask Certainty Deed Done
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The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Best Failure Fear Hugging
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I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.
Break Desire Future No Future
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Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Agreeable Animals Ask Criticisms
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The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Always Asked Being Between
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I would say that I'm blessed with a very, very good executive team that operates, reasonably autonomously, each of the companies.

Blessed Companies Each Executive
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India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.

Basis Come Doing India
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I am in favour of disinvestment. But if a disinvested company has to tie up with a government company for its livelihood, there is a problem.

Am Company Favour Government
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I have always been bullish about India's potential. I still am, and I feel India is a country that really has an enormous amount of potential and has the human capital to succeed.

About Always Am Amount
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Flying, I continue to be involved with. I love flying, and I hope to keep doing it so long as I can pass my medicals and stay proficient.

Continue Doing Flying Hope
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There has to be a drive to make the U.K. competitive in the motorcar industry or in the engineering industry. To do that, you have to give attention to the manufacturing sector.

Attention Competitive Drive Engineering
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New startups embody the creativity, the innovation of young people, and for me, it was and is a very worthwhile experience to interact with them.

Creativity Embody Experience Innovation
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If a founder has passion and innovation, he needs to be supported. I am more intuitive than a numbers person, and I recognise that not all investments are going to be positive. Some may fail, and some may have problems for other reasons. That is life.

Am Fail Founder Going
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A founder who is in for the short run, or has no passion for the sector he is in, doesn't give me a great deal of comfort.

Comfort Deal Founder Give
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As you grow older, you become - everybody becomes - less inflexible and a little more accommodating.

Become Becomes Everybody Grow
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.

Every Expect Experience Important
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.

Allowing Although Both Closet
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