But I just didn't have the gumption to get dressed.
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You like that he had the gumption to take it.
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All it takes is a few slides and some gumption.
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"Chasing the New White Whale" scores points for sheer gumption.
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We New Jerseyans know about gumption; we know about gall.
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Campbell doesn't have a Chicago sugar daddy; he has gumption.
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His accusatory tone implies that Nice Howard lacked gumption or drive.
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Why might it require gumption to speak the word "tankini" aloud?
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Through this, gumption became the mythical key to unlocking a career.
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Yet the gumption narrative still persists among prospective employees like myself.
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The megaphones only got louder, a function of timing and gumption.
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I'm glad we had enough gumption in us to walk out.
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There's a moment where she almost gets the gumption to fire Churchill.
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Handwritten on ruled notebook paper, the critique showed gumption, vigor, and passion.
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Friday night, Amy Klobuchar—mostly powered by gumption and newspaper endorsements—persisted
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But the diplomats and politicos didn't have the vision or the gumption.
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Elva unabashedly embraced wickedness; if only her creators had shown similar gumption.
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Maybe because of this, though, Irving also has a little more gumption.
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We need people with gumption to stand up to these kinds of folks.
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Zellner represents the gumption of season 2, and she's miles ahead of Kratz.
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Instead, they reminded us Wednesday night of their gumption, and of their deficits.
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When socialism bleeds into government overreach, it drains countries of prosperity and gumption.
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But, what the young startup lacks in reach, it makes up for in gumption.
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At the same time, Mr. Pryce offers a stirring example of old-fashioned gumption.
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There are very few municipalities that have the balls, the gumption to do that.
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In a sense of history, and the gumption to turn it on its head.
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But with enough pluck and gumption, plus money and genius, it can be done.
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Did we step up and have the gumption to ask for what a man would?
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His slingshot was his gumption, which he was able to translate into a compelling narrative.
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Zero waste, it turns out, takes not only planning and extra time — but also gumption.
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Advocating for myself boosted my gumption and self-confidence, propelling me up the corporate ladder.
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What the film lacks in cohesion, it makes up for in ambition, gumption, and heart.
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It's not a surprise that HBO had the gumption to greenlight a show like this.
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If Snap stops buying, who else might have enough capital and gumption to get purchasing?
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It took a lot of gumption and Googling but I persevered, and you can, too!
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Well, Crumbs was the one with enough gumption to stand up to both of them.
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He had a job interview and was filled with gumption, despite his ex-convict status.
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The book also assumed that women could navigate corporations if only they had the gumption.
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She would endorse Faith because she's got gumption and she keeps trying no matter what.
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Handstands and guns appear, ghostly music, exigency — the passage bursts with vernacular gumption, prismatic parlance.
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And the U.N. and I.C.A.O. probably won't have the gumption to demand that they do.
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Gumption and a good eye aren't all it takes to start your own fashion brand.
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I've found that alongside my rebel's gumption for individuality stands a palpable sense of gratitude.
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And that grit and gumption was on full display in his incredible 2011 championship run.
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People love her gumption and are rooting for Ava and Le'Veon to go to prom together.
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With gumption and dedication like that, though, Staudemaier is sure to have a rosy romantic future.
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But the show is so gung-ho about everything that you almost fall for its gumption.
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Their gumption, however, was not replicated by anyone on the '98 edition, which was simply never published.
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Only the people with the strongest ideas and the gumption to fight for them would find success.
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But Vindman also had the gumption to speak out after an earlier July 10 White House meeting.
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But, more importantly, Ron was the person who gave me the gumption to never let the bastards win.
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Those who stick with him through these exercises do so because they lack the gumption to say no.
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That shows gumption, but a switch from dealing with consumers to focusing on technology would not be easy.
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Until recently, it was rare anyone had the gumption to make a fictional film about a sitting president.
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But in reality, captive tortoises have a notable knack for escape artistry, perhaps because people underestimate their gumption.
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Watching Bohemian Rhapsody, you may find yourself wishing that its filmmakers had half the gumption of their subject.
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It takes a lot of gumption to falsely claim you've supported medicare for all from the very beginning.
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But anyone with an ounce of charisma and a soupcon of gumption at least had a good chance.
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Everybody's not going to meet a Zendaya and have the gumption or the ability to figure everything out.
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After children reach a certain age, it's the hope of most parents that their kid shows a little gumption.
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Their gumption was most recently on display during the harrowing days that saw the government turn out its lights.
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Would you really have the gumption to pick the Hayward-less Celtics over the Cavaliers in the East finals?
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Lowenstein managed to lock horns with a future president, Princess Vilma did not show similar gumption in her day.
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And the only people with the integrity, gumption and sleuthing skills to save it are Mitch and his lifeguards.
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There are no politicians who have the gumption to challenge Mr. Modi and his B.J.P. on that central vision.
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When you get down to it, you're making up in gumption what you lack in nearly every other resource.
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Harriet has always been with me … I thought, that's who I want to be, someone with grit and gumption.
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Dumezweni maintains Hermione's gumption and adds a level of insecurity to her character over always being smarter than everyone else.
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But all of Britain's great advancements in the past have been because we've had the gumption to take a risk.
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They find simple strategies that will give them the extra push they need on the days when they lack gumption.
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Go the balance transfer route only if you've got the gumption to pay off your debt before interest kicks in.
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He may now find the gumption to walk them during the day, in Moose or anywhere else in the country.
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It's a measure of Twyla Tharp's gumption that she circles back to her failures as well as to her successes.
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But I truly appreciate that gumption and give her many kudos for understanding the digital future better than most in media.
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The hearty food does seem pretty perfect for a Thanksgiving gathering, with or without a side of good ol' American gumption.
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But I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane.
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When Nala finally worked up the gumption to venture out, she made a run for it directly into her indoor habitat.
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His genius lies in having the gumption to claim he got everything he asked for nonetheless—which may prove useful here.
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Or, put differently, the striking absence of advisers with the guts and gumption to say something is dumb, wrong or undoable.
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Today, voters are too impressed by entertainer status and put celebs in office, despite their lack of any particular governing gumption.
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"I was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane," Ford said.
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It takes real gumption to be able to decide that these things are for you and that you can do them.
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It was in the weary, determined drawl of his voice, rising to a sustained, honeyed ache or rasping with stubborn gumption.
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Many more players privately dream of adding the shot to their repertoire but are unable to summon the gumption in public.
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And God bless Mariah Carey for having the vision and the gumption and, to be quite honest, the balls to do it.
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"We are proud of this generation's inner strength and fearless gumption to let it shine," Mariska Hargitay posted on Wednesday on Twitter.
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The musical, for all its paeans to immigration and American gumption, is at other moments a monument to the nation's banking prowess.
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The Yankees may not have the gumption to innovate in their Bronx fishbowl, but they are quick to jump after others have.
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"A lot of the characters I read are unflawed, really likeable gals, with lots of gumption," Brie said at a Netflix event.
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The difference with [Gumption vs the first EP] is that I knew a larger platform of people were going to hear it.
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Nevertheless, the banking expert had the gumption to lob a dissenting vote in his capacity as a governor on the Federal Reserve Board.
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School boards, city councils and similar elected positions will continue to let us down until we work up the gumption to fill them.
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It takes a lot of gumption to make it in this concrete jungle, but your way to the top is never struggle-free.
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That leaves much of the job to residents like him who have the gumption to get neighbors together to clean the areas themselves.
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Her gumption and work ethic seem so admirable, but her van and her health seem so precarious, her hopes so vulnerable to fate.
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Whoever makes that roll of the dice should have a clear vision of the road ahead, and the gumption to see it through.
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Even though Maia finally shows enough gumption to help me understand why Diane saw a future for her, it may not be enough.
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She's gone from working at a record store and self-releasing her 2013 EP Jekyll/Hyde to recently releasing her Domino debut Gumption while touring with Porches and Alex G. Produced by Nicolas Vernhes (the War on Drugs, Deerhunter) at the Rare Book Room in Brooklyn, Gumption is a warm, textured piece of dreamy guitar indie tunes that sweeps you away.
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"If I knew anyone I wanted to be with, I would hope I would have the gumption to bang on his door," she says.
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But Gore, as the film shows it, is the one with the ideas, the gumption, and the connections to grease the wheels of change.
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Thanks to the help of Iris he briefly returns to his former glory and she gets the "gumption" to move forward with her life.
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If gaming opportunities are to expand significantly in Florida, it will be because Florida voters prove they have more gumption for gambling than lawmakers.
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Where his past success has always been looked at as plain brilliance, any from here on out will be viewed as proof of gumption.
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I feel like if I just owned that material and loved it with all of my heart, I wouldn't have any gumption about it.
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"You need to have that gumption," said Ms. Faul, a retired computer programmer who lost her sight in a car accident while in college.
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But I cannot muster the gumption to claim that James is about to lead the broken Cavaliers to four wins in next five games.
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Petite and pretty, Rachel has got big eyes, a clear voice, and the kind of fiery gumption you'd expect from a modern-day Disney princess.
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Clinton's campaign lacked gumption in going after Mr. Trump, particularly because Mr. Obama and Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts have relished opportunities to skewer him.
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When I set out on my own, I had all the gumption and appetite for risk that I needed to take charge of my career.
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And all this comes to light now because Asher had the gumption and good fortune to obtain, for the first time, Algren's entire F.B.I. file.
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Your Friend is a project from a songwriter named Taryn Miller who's releasing her debut project Gumption on Domino later this month on January 29.
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Far from a natural hero, Magdalys displays a realistic mix of terror and gumption in the face of the monsters around her, reptilian and human.
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It took considerable gumption for a longtime Republican with unabashedly right-wing political views to declare his news network "fair and balanced," unlike the competition.
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I care only that he or she is awake, has a clean, loaded weapon, did well in marksmanship, has gumption and will cover my back.
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On Gumption you incorporated a bunch of ambient audio snapshots that you recorded with a field recorder around your hometown family farm in Dexter, Kansas.
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"The pound's sustained slump has finally given the FTSE the gumption to cross 1003,560, a level not seen in three months," Spreadex analyst Connor Campbell said.
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Weaves are proof that weird will always succeed with enough gumption, as their great self-titled debut album was just nominated for Canada's Polaris Music Prize.
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"God's Plan" is a bop because the energetic Drake who talks about being destined for greatness has a certain level of spirit and gumption to it.
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And that's something it will need, because All the Money in the World doesn't quite have the gumption to live up to its all-star pedigree.
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Feigning a fight without the gumption to follow through announces to the world that you were never serious about playing hard-ball in the first place.
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How could I try to feel good about myself, when I was still working up the gumption to even get out of bed in the morning?
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Cookie is also a gifted baker, and this skill, combined with King-Lu's entrepreneurial gumption and that pilfered milk, brings about a fateful change of circumstance.
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If you ask Midge Maisel (played by Rachel Brosnahan) what it takes to be her, she'd probably say gumption — and maybe a really good brisket recipe.
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Having the gumption to buy a business is impressive at any age, but McDermott snapped up his neighborhood delicatessen for $216,500 — at the age of 16.
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While we may lack the gumption of the ever-wily Frank Quattrone, we make up for it in energetic guessing, larded with a lot of actual reporting.
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But to create serious momentum, it needs the gumption to double down when it counts and help Canadians bring their creations to the world as Canadian creations.
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It has been more than 85033 years since a Senate committee had the gumption and the sway to reveal the stunning details and breadth of FBI misconduct.
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It was a clarifying end to what had become a sloppy game: the Celtics can have all the gumption they like, but certain basketball truths still hold.
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The Shortlist FRIEND OF MY YOUTH By Amit Chaudhuri It takes some gumption to name your novel after an Alice Munro story, particularly one you haven't read.
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In the two-part season premiere, it was Nick who facilitated her escape (although the gumption to remove a piece of her own ear was Offred's alone).
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She had an understanding with the universe that she could start out with nothing and, through her own gumption and intelligence, come back with a good living.
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Planting a flag firmly at the intersection of patriarchy, sexism and white supremacy, "The Rape of Recy Taylor" is a documentary of multiple layers and marvelous gumption.
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He didn't even have the gumption of Reince Priebus, who chose his racist demagogue and stuck with him no matter how many sexual assault allegations arose against him.
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Well he showed me how to have a lot of gumption, you know what I mean, he showed me how to be a little more assertive and positive.
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Veronique's love for the Crown-of-Thorns seemed totally out of step with whatever motivates the orchid show, so soaked in colonial history, Singaporean gumption, and undeniable beauty.
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By the Book The actor, woodworker, musician and author, most recently, of "Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America's Gutsiest Troublemakers" reads for solace during air turbulence.
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That's good news for any other billion-dollar startups who want to loosen Wall Street's grip on them — but were scared of whether they'd suffer for their gumption.
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He'd be too far back in line, assuming he didn't have $35 an hour to pay a line-standing company, or the gumption to play line-stander himself.
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But there was also enough gumption there to make you want to see what will happen next, when he has had a little more time, and Parisian pickling.
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Few big-scale studio movies have the gumption to try this sort of tactic outside of action movies, which pile on the explosions to evoke a similar effect.
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The corporate sector may be prepared to ramp up its opposition to the tariffs, but whether enough chief executives have the gumption to risk Trump's ire is a question.
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Even if you had the gumption to make these all of these lifestyle changes, your chances of straightening the situation out once and for all were far from guaranteed.
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"She's got the gumption to come all around the country and ask us for help after she's took all the money off us," he said, referring to benefit cuts.
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I turned back toward Penn Station, disheartened that I had missed my ride but mostly frustrated with myself for lacking the gumption to insist that the cab was mine.
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He's not the greatest singer, but there's a kind of gumption and nerve to the singing of this song — [MUSIC - KENNY LOGGINS, "THIS IS IT"] The waiting is over.
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As with the president and his tweets, Mr. Lagerfeld has been saying outrageous things so regularly for so long and with such gumption, everyone is numb to the substance.
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Aspiring to the sweep of epics like "Doctor Zhivago" and "Reds," Mr. George achieves neither the romantic delirium of the first nor the sheer swaggering gumption of the second.
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Gillibrand gave the male candidates a run for their money and decided to cut in as well — leading some on Twitter to call her out, while others celebrated her gumption.
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Never ones to take themselves too seriously, Sags' charm and legendary poker face gives these good-humored fire signs the gumption to pull it off with a self-aware wink.
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Midtown East, Manhattan It takes a healthy dose of gumption to smoke beneath a "no smoking" sign — particularly if you are the person who is supposed to enforce the rule.
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She was not very much older than me but she was, I soon learned, unafraid to ply the streets of the city with smarts and gumption I did not have.
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Finding the gumption to start saving for retirement at 25 can be challenging — no one wants to feel like they're sacrificing the joys of today for the promise of tomorrow.
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Answer: Not until the Minnesota owner Glen Taylor finds the gumption to override his own legendary indecisiveness and go through with a deal when a perfectly good one presents itself.
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He's a political fable, holding out the happy if far-fetched possibility that a candidate's effervescence matters more than a state's partisan breakdown and that gumption beats any focus group.
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Buyers may get the gumption to balk at typical exemptions, including certain changes in regulation, from the definition of a material adverse change, hoping to cover any Trump-era bombshells.
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They see parallels with Lorde's Melodrama, and they're grateful that at the age of 21, Ella Yelich O'Connor has the gumption to not try and be older than she is.
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That said, while I gently applaud the Night King's strength and gumption, I do so from the comfort of Earth, where there is no threat of an incoming White Walker army.
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She says she got up the gumption to fire the nanny and leave him, but he fired back that the nanny would leak damaging stories to the media and Children's Services.
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We call that "hitting for the cycle," and it requires both gumption and persistence, because constructing early-week puzzles requires a much different skill set than constructing late-week, themeless puzzles.
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Kate Spade had no empire, no history, only the belief that women would find resonance in the particularly American strain of gumption she was selling, the profound wish to declare herself.
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In 2012, he had the gumption to throw an 89 mile-per-hour fastball down the middle to freeze Miguel Cabrera and clinch the World Series for the San Francisco Giants.
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As the songs played, my elderly birthday twin grabbed my hand, and we had a sweet exchange where she commended me for my gumption to see the world alone while I'm young.
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Yes, maybe, but I pay it and will continue to pay it until I can spare an afternoon or three and build up the gumption necessary to clean it all up myself.
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If you worked a managerial job, the kind that stressed creativity and gumption and "thinking outside of the box," you would be more inclined to think of yourself in such individualistic terms.
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The image of her writing her own petition to sue the City of Lafayette sounds so charmingly grass-roots, go-girl gumption-y, but reeks of Koch Brothers funding or the like.
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But she still had to muster the gumption to finish off the champion she has been watching since Kenin was turning heads of her own as a child prodigy in South Florida.
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He, like other members of the team, said he had been approached out of the blue by Ms. Pavlovic — in his case, by email — and was taken by her gumption and candor.
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" In a later e-mail, she said that these changes, which were not a response to criticism, gave Caithleen "more gumption" and "opened her eyes to the serpentine ways of the world.
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On Duval Street, most of the bars remain boarded up, but the streets are clear, thanks to a very small team of city public works employees and neighbors with gumption and brawn.
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Then again, The Politician's opening credits, in which he is literally built out of wood and filled with little tchotchkes that symbolize good, old-fashioned American gumption, have already suggested as much.
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There's not another white Alabama Republican in Congress with the gumption to defy President Trump's endorsement or even protest when Steve Bannon scorched their party in an incendiary speech here last Tuesday.
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Congress (Democrats and Republicans alike) could not find the gumption to act on the proposed Arbitration Fairness Act, first introduced in 2009, which would have outlawed such provisions in consumer and employment contracts.
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One has to admire the gumption of jumping into a space that has been so thoroughly dominated by Nintendo and smartphones over the last decade that hardly anyone has even attempted to break in.
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Plus, through sheer gumption and the rap of a used car salesman, Leo had amassed a tidy purse by setting up shop in our lobby, offering his John Derian–like collages for $3 apiece.
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It was a massive loss to both their families, as well as to millions of fans around the world, who found inspiration in both women's gumption, talent, creativity, honesty, and relationship with each other.
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"For those who were involved in the attack, if they have the gumption to sneak up on our homes, I'd like them or their representatives to come and meet me," Mr. Adams said Saturday.
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In the most densely populated state in the Union, a frenetic comma-shaped wild where the highways and shopping malls alone are out to maim you, you'll need all the gumption you can get.
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This year has been a series of news tsunamis, and you, our readers, absorbed it all with gumption — offering millions of comments that told your own stories and helped elevate conversations around tricky subjects.
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Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair: Everyone, kid and adult, is dragged back into an adventure of sorts, calling on knowledge of nerdy arcana—and plenty of small-town, blue-collar gumption—to figure things out.
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In the best light, the US government had the courage to fill a glaring gap in international law enforcement: no other country had the gumption or resources to tackle the cronyism rampant at FIFA.
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It made no sense to me, that he could be on his phone and interact in an indirect way but not muster up the gumption to actually talk to me, even if to reject me.
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Tales of individuals' gumption — trekking the tundra, fighting off bears, starting fires to stay warm — are as much a part of Alaska's culture as the midnight sun or the North Star on the state flag.
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At least Trina Turk, Outdoor Voices, and Target, three of the many retailers that have included the style in their summer swim collections, have summoned the gumption to call it by its true name: tankini.
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Masai Ujiri, Toronto's team president, had the gumption to acquire Leonard via trade from the Spurs last July and instantly transformed the Raptors, who previously had struggled in the playoffs, into an Eastern Conference force.
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So the administration unleashes its anti-abortion fury on the most vulnerable among us, unaccompanied minors, pregnant and alone, who are here only because they had the gumption or desperation to flee something even worse.
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Nuriddin's vendor is just one of the inspiring Americans working at Central Wholesale who, through grit and gumption, managed to carve a life for himself in the US. "Charles is an American success story," she says.
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Of course, I was even more surprised (and impressed) that the folks at Erato had the gumption to send me a prototype unit in the first place — Erato hadn't even launched the Apollo 7 Kickstarter yet.
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"I do fault myself for not having the gumption or the courage to do something sooner," Tripp told an audience in a Senate building on Capitol Hill, delivering the keynote address at an event honoring whistleblowers.
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The record follows in the art school-steeped tradition of 70s LA punk acts like X and early Black Flag, with a nod to the post-punk snark and gumption of Modern Lovers and Violent Femmes.
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But with a few exceptions like Boots Riley's surrealist 2018 indie film "Sorry to Bother You," American popular culture hasn't caught up to a world where brains and gumption are no match for larger material forces.
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"Kristof and WuDunn document the tireless and heroic ways in which the people they interviewed tried, often with greater gumption than many fortunate people will ever be asked to summon," Sarah Smarsh writes in her review.
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After that, Mr. Kim worked his way through high school and college, delivering newspapers and selling vegetables and iced tea on the streets and acquiring the marketing gumption and savvy that would later mark his career.
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Jedediah Wheeler, the executive director of Peak Performances, said he had long admired Mr. Goren's "tremendous imagination and gumption," and added that the new partnership dovetails with his vision of universities as incubators of new work.
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And if you have a gumption about you or a disdain for the problem you have, the likelihood of you persevering through some great obstacle that you meet along the way is going to be relatively high.
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Will it be enough to transform the policy agendas of the 21 Democratic candidates for president so Jay Inslee isn't the only one with the gumption to say averting environmental disaster is our single most important priority?
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Barbara Low, who was among a core of female scientists whose research in the 21950s unleashed a bonanza of lifesaving antibiotics, and whose gumption gained her followers a foothold in a male-dominated field, died on Jan.
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He was an annual science fair participant in his youth, but his time at George Washington University sparked the gumption Gelfand needed to scrap plans to go into political analytics and "go all-in" on his dreams.
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The first song from the upcoming remake of "A Star Is Born," written and directed by Bradley Cooper, is a good, old-fashioned, sound-of-the-1970s, gumption-of-the-1980s, high-treacle-higher-pomp roots ballad.
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In a pair of novels, he's been more slyly devastating, portraying a country run almost entirely by backstabbing mediocrities, and a society where a woman who shows any gumption or intelligence usually ends up dead or disfigured.
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When Mike falls for Judy (Andrea Riseborough, all hair and gumption), a scrawny single mother who's not at all down with racism, he's forced to choose between his woman and the only family he has ever known.
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But when it comes to marijuana, establishing what doctors call the minimal effective dose has involved experimenting with tinctures or taking tiny amounts of edibles — not necessarily something a newbie has the patience or the gumption to do.
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Unless you're Steve Ballmer, the former Microsoft chief who spent $763 billion on the Los Angeles Clippers without the help of outside investors, most potential owners don't have the wherewithal, or the gumption, to finance a purchase themselves.
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This is part of what we get out of our investment in Texas — a distinct Western gumption and grit that affects, however fleetingly, who we are and who we think we are and how our houses should look.
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There's a lot of listening and parsing, and a lot of cajoling people — who would rather be anonymous in order to say what they really feel — to summon the gumption to attach their names to their true thoughts.
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Rather, this particular progress was simply born from the fact that existing members of Congress are frustrated with their inability to get things done, and together they generated the gumption to challenge leaders unwilling to move the ball forward.
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He led the Congress to victory in three provincial elections in December, demonstrating the ability to win back the support of groups and the gumption to take on Mr. Modi, accusing him of corruption in a major defense deal.
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Otsuka's on-the-job training, gumption (which is not always appreciated in reserve-respecting Japan), and art-biz smarts became as integral to the chef-turned-artist's tale as his decision to change careers and the peculiar evolution of his art.
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But perhaps no other has the gumption, the sheer deluded conviction, to put forth the insane notion that a constant churn of smartphones is anything but bad news for our planet when there is so much evidence to the contrary.
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Those with the gumption to prosecute quickly discover their task is Sisyphean when confronted by a standard that instructs a jury to judge an officer's actions not by what a reasonable civilian would do, but by what another officer would do.
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But for all YouTube's flaws, and all of its aggressive moves to turn teens into stars (and advertising commodities), the site still freely hosts young people with nothing more than a room, a guitar, a voice, and a little gumption.
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"Nancy Drew games were such a formative part of my adolescence, Nancy's intelligence, confidence, and gumption were an inspiration to me," wrote Redditor angelxallow in a thread request for stories about what the games meant to fans of the franchise.
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Healy might strike out with half of these songs, but his gumption is still refreshing in a climate where the world's biggest rock band was happy coughing up two-thirds of its Super Bowl halftime show to Beyoncé and Bruno Mars.
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Firefighters are making progress on some of the bigger fires, Napa County Fire Chief Barry Biermann said Friday, thanks in large part to the gumption of those who've been on the lines for days and the reinforcements who are relieving them.
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"Planting a flag firmly at the intersection of patriarchy, sexism and white supremacy, 'The Rape of Recy Taylor' is a documentary of multiple layers and marvelous gumption," Jeannette Catsoulis wrote in her review of this documentary for The New York Times.
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Churchill's resolve, like the bravery of the soldiers, airmen and ordinary Britons in "Dunkirk," is offered not as a rebuke to the current generation, but rather as a sop, an easy and complacent fantasy of Imperial gumption and national unity.
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But Chetty started his lecture with a big-picture analysis of the state of the American dream, the classic rags-to-riches story in which someone born poor rises to the highest levels of society by dint of talent and gumption.
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Had the earlier ban survived, and her fellow legislators showed the same gumption in the face of the gun lobby's threats, the sorts of military-style, semiautomatic weapons brandished to spray death in Las Vegas and Texas would have been banned.
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With some gumption and good luck, however, Luna became one of a select few who obtained special legal certification that can allow undocumented victims of crimes and human trafficking to remain in the United States while their cases are investigated.
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"That was certainly what I was hoping was to avoid, having to get on an airplane, but I eventually was able to get up the gumption with the help of some friends and get on the plane," Ford said Thursday.
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The life style, to a large swath, is unaffordable, if not in pure monetary terms (outdoor adventure is not in itself expensive, necessarily, although the clothing for sale certainly is), then at least in terms of time, talent, energy, and gumption.
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This is the story of a woman choosing something that such close proximity to the presidency had already foisted upon her: to be something in public, and something else in private, and to live both those timelines with equal gumption.
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"Meanwhile Spencer's scrappy Minny Jackson, Aibileen's best friend and the best cook in the county, provides not only comic relief but a feistiness that shows that some maids found the gumption and means to get back at overbearing employers," the publication wrote.
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He capped his career by being elected prime minister twice (153 and 1874), on both occasions as part of the Conservative party; it was a stunning achievement that equals, and perhaps even surpasses, Mr Obama's in terms of sheer gumption, talent and doggedness.
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But in the middle of all this, when we do try, with all our courage and gumption, and we do squash our hearts and souls into tiny Instagram squares, we are brutally and painfully shot down if it doesn't come off perfectly.
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"My wife and I love pictures of our children looking rosy-cheeked and gorgeous, but what these photos show is character and a bit of gumption," said Tim Jeffries, who owns Hamiltons Gallery in London and who commissioned portraits of Coco and Rex.
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An awkward merger of wide-eyed innocence and political unrest, Derrick Borte's sweet, almost sugary picture wants to rock but never finds the gumption — unlike Shay's mother (Natascha McElhone), who absconded years earlier to a London squat to pursue her musical career.
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After all, part of the appeal of movies "inspired by true events" is the chance to admire the artistry of actors (like Tom Hanks's, say, in Mr. Eastwood's "Sully") as they communicate the grit and gumption of ordinary Americans in tough circumstances.
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There was a time when fashion in New York City was far less corporate, more ad hoc, when tribes and teams operated on the slimmest of margins and relied for survival on passion, gumption, favors, connections and maxing out somebody's credit card.
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Even with his overstuffed portfolio, Cromwell makes time, and room in his household, for a procession of "roaring boys" — "runaway apprentices, roisterers, ruffians" — in whom he sees the combination of hard knocks and gumption that led to his own rise in the world.
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But rapid expansion can be just as much of a curse as it can be a blessing if a franchisor rushes into an unproven concept without the ability or the gumption to assist unhappy franchisees in hard times, according to serial entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis.
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Fashion Review PARIS — It takes a certain amount of gumption to hold your first show for a historic French brand in the echoing, imposing halls of the Palace of Justice, watched over by looming marble statues engaged in the eternal business of rendering judgment.
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But as white men who won the lottery at birth, people like Trump, Kavanaugh and me shouldn't pretend we were born in a state of nature and raised by wolves, rising to our station in life only through our own effort, gumption, and grace.
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I like that she'd somehow gotten the gumption in that time period to have those aspirations and dreams, and not really be bogged down with the difficulty of achieving them or how impossible it might seem or how the odds were all stacked against her.
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But I have always believed that marketers need people who recognize their dollars, and that they should drive and control their brands and they should control their data, and I think this will probably give them additional gumption to stand up and be heard.
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I mean bad dying, where every day the unmoving dullness and static monotony of your life burns the gumption from your blood cells until you're just a putrescent trash bag full of pigs' trotters waiting to be crushed by the sticky teeth of an old dust truck.
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The first title to publish in the series will be Elbow Grease, a picture book that follows the titular monster truck, who is smaller than his four brothers but on a mission to prove that he has the guts, grit, and gumption to do big things.
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Character-actor mainstay Shea Whigham is reduced to "git'er done" levels of gumption as FBI hostage rescue agent Richard M. Rogers; a desperately uninventive decision to cast Julia Garner as Waco victim Michele Jones turns the talented Electrick Children actress into a manic-pixie-cult-girl.
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Yet, armed with family connections, some degree of architectural knowledge, and a lot of gumption, Gropius began his career under the noted architect Peter Behrens, who also employed another young protégé: Mies van der Rohe (who would become the third and final leader of the Bauhaus school).
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Add to this the gumption of recreating a scene in which a man tells his best friend's wife he's in love with her, when Johnson's own personal life is controversial at best, and the entire thing starts to look disingenuous and ill-judged from every angle.
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There are significantly more fight scenes this season, alternating between special effects-driven spectacles where Eleven shows off her powers, slugfests with Hopper trying to stand his own against a seemingly unbeatable enemy, or the kids just using improvised weapons and gumption to do what damage they can.
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Based on Kirk's various skills and unending gumption to occupy himself with money-making activities throughout the first seven seasons of Gilmore Girls, we've thought of some jobs that Kirk could have in the four-part miniseries Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, debuting on Netflix Nov. 25.
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Jacqueline seems to intimate to Jane that her biggest enemy—the force holding her back more than anything—is herself, that Jane would find herself on the Didion-Ephron spectrum in no time if she could just find the confidence and the gumption to stand behind her ideas.
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The deficit — which the Treasury Department said on Monday had swelled to $779 billion in the 2018 fiscal year, up from $666 billion the previous year — has been reduced to a thing to be ignored, like a loud dinner party guest no one has the gumption to silence.
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Perhaps, as some suggested, the romanticism of sequined jacket prints depicting Dorothy Gale asleep on a bed of roses (not far from Oz) were a reference to Mr. Abloh's belief in pursuing one's dream, but they also underscored the Midwestern gumption he shares with that girl from Kansas.
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" As worker productivity has hit mind-boggling new heights over the last thirty years and the gig economy is steadily taking over our lives, the midcentury "gumption" tactic has been replaced with asking a distant connection, or even truly random person, out for coffee to "pick their brain.
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MACCALLUM: All right, you had the gumption to come up with a bill that would actually balance the budget and cut the budget by $13 trillion over 10 years, and we have a Republican senate majority but only 21 senators actually voted for anything that looks like a balanced budget deal.
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But touched by the letter and the gumption it took a 9-year-old to write to an executive, Lubetzky invited Munoz to come to the company's New York City headquarters, meet him and, in a nod to Munoz's financial literacy, be the company's chief financial officer for the day.
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Mr. Carson, a neurosurgeon with no real policy experience, brings with him to the management of a $50 billion agency intended to serve the poor a certain antipathy toward fair housing law, a distaste for "social engineering" and a belief that the poor are best served by their own gumption.
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They are the party of socialists, they are the party of anarchy and we have never had a President, a leader of the Republican Party with the, I don&apost want to use the word but you know what I&aposm talking about, the gumption to say the truth and it&aposs resonating.
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LONDON — Yves Cibuabua, a Congolese business school graduate living in Brussels, was known among family and friends for his gumption and determination: By age 27, he had progressed from doing stints as a cleaner and a supermarket cashier to working in the financial securities department of Banque Eni, part of the Italian energy giant.
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It's hard to miss the fact that the Anonymous NFL Front Office Guy's counterparts in baseball and basketball are increasingly young dudes with Ivy League degrees and maybe MBA's, that they communicate using different acronyms and spend most of their time quantifying things that the NFL has always eagerly chalked up to gumption and grit.
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"Gold rush" is a wonderful cliché to apply, if only because I think we're in the middle of one—regular people can ostensibly still mine for now, if they've got the cash and the gumption, but we're going to get to a time when only lumbering corporate giants can get anything of worth at all.
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I kept all my long investments and used other vehicles again -- the other thing I did was I bought a bunch of Treasuries just because I wanted -- and by the way it took me three days, I wish I had done it all the first day but didn't have the courage or the gumption or whatever.
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Perhaps what Mr Kim needed to hear to bring him to his senses was not another carrot offered in the form of yet another international gabfest, such as the wholly ineffective six-party talks on Iran, but an American president who had the gumption to call him "rocket man" and growl that "mine's bigger than yours".
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Keanu Reeves Keeps Up the Intense Pace in John Wick: Chapter 3—ParabellumParabellum means "prepare for war"—and war is what you get in the third installment of the John…Read more ReadIf you've got some spare cash lying around and coding gumption, Park also linked to a tutorial so you can make your own Keanu gif player.
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The two take little jabs at each other in lyrics and interviews, but one senses that any friction only serves to boost the case of Tory Lanez, whose biggest hit to date, "Say It," is a garish, blatant ripoff of Brownstone's 1994 smash "If You Love Me." Being post-Drake is no crime — plenty of artists are — but improving on the titan's moves takes both flair and gumption.
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Fashion Review PARIS — Given the current uneasy state of things in France — the controversial dismantling of the migrant camp near Calais, the scanning of bags at Paris Fashion Week and, depending on the show, guests; the organizers' announcement that they would not disclose locations publicly because of safety concerns — it takes a certain amount of gumption for a designer to claim as a muse the first woman to ride a motorcycle solo across the Middle East (and then around the world).
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Yet it remains the more outlandish and idiosyncratic designs that mark Ms. Bode as an American original since, after all, it requires a particular kind of gumption to create men's wear inspired by one's interest in collecting cardboard milk bottle caps and old pennies (both of which the designer inserted into transparent PVC raincoats stitched up in grids); turn woolly stuffed animals into slippers; imprint monochrome images of baseball cards on shirts; and repurpose a flea market tablecloth find as a jacket embroidered with a map of Robinson Crusoe's island.
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