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The time I told my father I hated him, causing him a lot of pain. He passed away six years ago, and my mother eight years ago.
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Steve Jobs
Co-founder and chief executive of Apple; co-founder of NeXT; chief executive of Pixar
But the market was changing. The industry was changing. The scale was changing. And in the end we knew we would be either the last company to make it or the first to not make it. We were right on the edge. We thought we would be the last one that made it, but we were wrong. We were the first one that didn't. We put an end to the companies that tried to do that. We certainly made our fair share of mistakes, but in the end I think we should have taken a bit longer to realize the world was changing and just gone on to be a software company right off the bat.
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Fewer night shifts.
Michael Kiwanuka
English singer-songwriter
Nothing. Everything happens for a reason.
Eleanor Tomlinson
English actress
A few of my exes.
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View profile →A 1955 Jaguar XK120. It was not in very good condition and, little by little, I brought it back to its former splendour.
As someone who made a difference.
In 1989, in Cuba, about to board a plane for Milan, where I was going to school for a year. The visa didn’t arrive in time, so I couldn’t board. The plane crashed and people died.
A few nights ago I was crying in my sleep, dreaming of my dead parents.
Selling stolen mangoes to pay for a cinema ticket, aged eight.
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