Word: ego
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MUST HAVE A HUGE EGO TO THINK THAT YOU'RE A SUCCESSFUL DIRECTOR EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE NEVER MADE A MOVIE THAT GROSSED $100 MILLION DOMESTIC. Well, I tell you, maybe I do. [Laughs.] I'm not the easiest person in the world to get along with. But I'm old. Maybe there's a few other executives who don't think like this guy--who will give me some extra money to make a picture or two in the next 10 years, if I make it through. It's a different world now for me too, because I have...
...mops up one war in Afghanistan and prepares to launch a second in Iraq, it is increasingly clear that if Franks is not Rumsfeld's better half, he is surely his other half, his alter ego, the soldier's soldier who can rein in the supercivilian and gently remind him that battles are won not with dash but usually with numbers. If Afghanistan had been fought Rumsfeld's way, we might still have commandos mounting up on horseback to hunt down the Taliban. If the war had been fought Franks' way, we might have nabbed Osama bin Laden a long...
...nothing more than a light touch on the arm or a splash of water on the back. But for the unsuspecting prey, the feeling is more like hot steel burrowing through the flesh, permanently scalding one’s ego. There is no memorial service for those fallen in battle, only a lingering red hand-shaped mark to remind the victim of his shame and regret...
Most of the time, though, 50 Cent is content to blow just himself up—his ego, that is—but the violence that characterized his drug-dealing days in the Jamaica, Queens ghetto is never far beneath the surface of pimps and bitches. Rap would not be rap without puns and guns, and 50 Cent obeys this golden rule. “I aim straight for your head / So don’t push me / Fill your ass up with lead / So don’t push me,” he threatens...
That idea was a relatively universal one and not confined to Harvard. The self-importance of the radical students was similarly widespread. However, Harvard itself injects its students with an ego-booster shot that is not necessarily negative, Cantor argues...