Word: ego
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Dates: during 2010-2019
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...realized it was too big to be financed without a major-league brand name. Khafif knew that Trump had been in Panama in 2003 for the Miss Universe Pageant, so he asked a mutual friend to set up a meeting in New York. "I know the guy has an ego and likes pretty things and, boom, Panama is exploding. So baby, if there's any right time, this is the right time," Khafif recalls, explaining the spirit in which he approached Trump. (See pictures of Trump and others most likely to succeed...
...entertainingly playful. He chases artists signed to other music companies with fervor, personally persuading the Rolling Stones to switch over from rival record company EMI two years ago. And once he's wooed acts, he can keep them on board - no small achievement in an industry not short of ego. When he was honored at London's Grosvenor Hotel with a Music Industry Trust Award in November 2008, he was feted by some of the biggest names in the business. Bono and the rest of U2 presented the award, Take That performed, and Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus, the male...
...serious emotions, but Morgan is incapable of playing a character with personality traits beyond stupidity and mockingly idiotic sorrow. He is trapped in an idiot box of slapstick comedy that prevents him from playing an actually funny role outside his hilarious “30 Rock” alter-ego, and thus should stick...
...reality, I don’t think being a college drunkard actually justifies the making of an “alter ego,” per se. Nevertheless, friends insist that I have another side of me, someone whom they endearingly refer to as “Dirty Cathy.” I won’t get into who “she” is or what “she” does. I’ll just say the name, as obscene as it may sound, never ceases to haunt...
...maybe we should all start embracing this side of ourselves, rather than passing it off on someone else—an alter ego or just an inebriated self that does things our sober persons would never do. Perhaps everyone else has come to terms with this, and I’m just the last one holding on, too terrified to take the blame...