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I don't dwell on disappointments.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States, 2009–2017; United States Senator from Illinois 2005–2008
If you ask me where has been the one area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws. Even in the face of repeated mass killings. … And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing. But it is not something that I intend to stop working on in the remaining 18 months.
Letting down the people I love.
Not going to the World Cup in 1986 and not going to the World Cup in 1998.
Patrick Stewart
Actor
Gregory Peck not mentioning me when he won best supporting actor at the Golden Globes for Father Mapple in Moby-Dick. I played Ahab.
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This is kind of cheesy, but my mum.
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