" The physician deemed her "sly, profane, obstinate, . . .
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He became obstinate with people who simply wanted an explanation.
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Her life, shuttling between two obstinate men, starts to seem unsustainable.
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For years, they were careful to the point of being obstinate.
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The obstinate refusal to take personal responsibility permeates the Trump organization.
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Obstinate segregationists, like the Alabama governor George Wallace, were frowned upon.
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He can't just be obstinate and say 'my way or the highway.
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But the Trump administration has proven obstinate on more obscure issues as well.
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In Serena's mind, June has been obstinate, and has tried to escape twice.
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Would she be considered so obstinate and uncooperative if she were a man?
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"Tasers are being used in response to unruly or obstinate behavior," it says.
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"Â "Of course, I am obstinate in defending our liberties and our law.
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When an obstinate subject decides to dig in, congressional subpoenas often don't succeed.
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All this fits the stereotype of "Jewish uproar"—of a noisy, obstinate people.
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The president blames supposedly obstinate Senate Democrats, against whom he regularly rages on Twitter.
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When it finally went into effect the levy was met with obstinate public opposition.
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No matter how obstinate one becomes, there is no solution except a political one.
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We could elect less obstinate politicians, so that disaster aid sails through more easily.
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The second is that the Italian government is prepared to take an obstinate stance.
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We in the intelligence world have dealt with obstinate and argumentative presidents through the years.
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I knew what enchantments lay between the covers of books, but I was also obstinate.
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Pockets of softness mix with more obstinate applications of opaque color, instigating an emotional response.
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A White House official was blunter, describing the California native as ideologically driven and "obstinate".
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They can still remain relatively obstinate during actual negotiations with the president and congressional Republicans.
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Our commitment to indecision then wasn't just an obstinate reluctance to make up our minds.
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Only Rorschach, the most obstinate of the heroes, doesn't go along with the cover-up.
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No one except the most willfully obstinate would defend wearing a war bonnet to Coachella.
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May's Brexit performance, sneer at her both openly and anonymously for being useless, obstinate, indecisive.
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The six look over their shoulders often, gaze vacillating between obstinate determination and an ingrained paranoia.
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It's remarkable how obstinate some people are about hanging onto the primitive tenets of the past.
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Which means Donald Trump is so obstinate, he won't even admit he's wrong to his phone.
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Before having the document, she believes doctors sometimes considered her obstinate and forced treatment on her.
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For years, Washington approached Iran with obstinate condemnations, extreme demands, and little interest in serious negotiations.
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Or do you expect Beijing to be obstinate in its attempts to freeze out the D.P.P.?
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In the end, the obstinate forces of tradition and inertia stymied the administration's move from Bankova Street.
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We stand against him for many reasons, not least of which is his obstinate refusal to change.
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The president's obstinate practice of going with his gut over the counsel of advisers has backfired spectacularly.
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In a country with significant gender inequality and obstinate patriarchal traditions, Bharti stands out in many ways.
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Back then, it was Portugal who played hosts, and Portugal who lost to the obstinate defensive scrappers.
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But Gregg Popovich, whose obstinate personality has made him something of a cult figure, is still there.
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Jude Njomo, a ruling party legislator who introduced the cap law, said the Treasury was being obstinate.
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In my recollections of that time, I was obstinate, unforgiving if anyone called me that other name.
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The temptation for presidents is to get angry and to lash out against what can be obstinate opposition.
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So ignore the obstinate, biased, alarmist headlines: the blue tidal wave will, at best, be a blue trickle.
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Trump's obstinate refusal to be a good soldier for the party is in keeping with his entire campaign.
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Today, a vocal and obstinate minority within both parties has hijacked good legislation in pursuit of no legislation.
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Some observers said the North's charm offensive had won the day, while American officials appeared obstinate and overshadowed.
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Word of the Day : willfully obstinate; stubbornly disobedient _________ The word contumacious has appeared in four articles on nytimes.
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Today a vocal and obstinate minority within both parties has hijacked good legislation in pursuit of no legislation.
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Merry uses Polk's tempestuous relationship with his obstinate Secretary of State, future president James Buchanan, as the prime example.
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Then again, he had always been a pretty obstinate person, so this wasn't a big change in their relationship.
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Had Wilson been less obstinate, he and Lodge might have found common ground and forged a broad, bipartisan compromise.
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That had some observers claiming that, having drawn ugly, Arsenal had shown a glimmer of obstinate, champion-defining character.
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The collection is "a love letter to an obstinate genre that won't be gentrified," our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
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"How could this obstinate little man … Lenin have become so important?" the Austrian novelist Stefan Zweig asked in 1927.
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Haven't I felt like Elsa, obstinate and reckless as she nearly drowns, forcing her way across the Dark Sea?
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Chuck Schumer said the Republicans' obstinate stand against the nominee will outweigh whatever other accomplishments the GOP tries to claim.
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This, presumably, is Anthony, whom Ding critiqued for being too obstinate about playing his way to conform to a team.
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A English widow moves herself and her brood of occasionally charming yet more often obstinate children to Greece in 1935.
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The Taliban's longstanding and obstinate rejection of direct talks with the Afghan government is an obstacle to a peace process.
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But what will keep the vibrantly unprejudiced young doctors of today from becoming obstinate and old-fashioned senior attendings tomorrow?
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And most of all, how do you persuade nature's most obstinate creation that it really wants to run with you?
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When such a system faces determined hackers, sophisticated law-enforcement agencies, lenient legislation, and obstinate telecom providers, the system loses.
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So I would say trolling on the deliberately obstinate end of the spectrum, which is like probably being a little annoying.
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There's also a second-order effect involved: our obstinate insistence at bathing in two screens at once, too close to bedtime.
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Nonetheless, obstinate school districts remained heavily segregated for more than a decade afterwards—until federal courts began enforcing mandatory integration orders.
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The quiet but obstinate determination of a man who has decided to stay behind forms the center of Mr. Laurent's film.
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Just as the bull's instant popularity forced City Hall's acceptance decades ago, so now has the girl with the obstinate glare.
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Making novel nuclear reactors extremely safe requires critical thinking and obstinate truth-telling; so does convincing others that you have done so.
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Allegory of the Five Obstinate Monsters, 1575–1618, Anon I look at a lot of historical work, more so than contemporary art.
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Secretary Clinton, obstinate in the defense of her military action, was pressed to answer questions on Libya in a rare 85033 interview.
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Advocates for legalization have been able to push their narrative precisely because government has been obstinate, reactionary, and hyperbolic with marijuana messaging.
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Don't allow an obstinate or narrow-minded attitude keep you from hearing out-of-the-box ideas and making good decisions.9.
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Perhaps the biggest hurdle is that the book is so much more than the plot of Ahab's obstinate pursual of The Whale.
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But even as the lyrics detail troubled thoughts, the music staves off self-pity with distorted tones, obstinate drumbeats and unhistrionic vocals.
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She's so obstinate that it's hard to figure out if she was, or if "Meyer" had an ulterior motive for killing her.
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" To her face he says she's in possession of "one of the most obstinate bodies I've ever dealt with in my career.
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The women cheerily replacing Blake Shelton were reframing sexiness, but only very slightly; their choices still adhered to an obstinate commercial ideal.
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I have argued before in favor of activism, even aggressive, obstinate activism; on climate change alone, something like a revolution seems necessary.
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The tunes all center around an obstinate techno kick pattern, but bring elements of either melody or rhythm that challenge convention and surprise.
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You can fumble a mystery, misunderstanding what you're reading or remaining obstinate in the face of real data, and the game respects that.
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It has been pressured by activists and investors to back shareholder-fronted propositions and vote against obstinate boards to prompt better corporate citizenship.
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I felt like they weren't mine … they just became these obstinate little flat pieces that had—physically and mentally—no feeling to them.
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At this stage, we're experiencing stubborn partisanship, exacerbated by too much bad news, too much bad data, and an obstinate approach to discourse.
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This week, we have been told that a shakeup in the Defense Ministry suggests that Kim Jong Un is removing obstinate hard-liners.
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If you're one of the unlucky few who does end up with one of these obstinate lids, better bust out those Channellock pliers!
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"There is no 'Thucydides trap' in the world, and the real trap will only come from misunderstanding, misjudgment and obstinate prejudice," Cui said.
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But when central banks are obstinate in their lack of confidence, the world remains at their mercy if their pessimism becomes self-fulfilling.
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I called my mom, obstinate and choked up, to say there was no way in hell I would be able to run this race.
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Perhaps more importantly, Pelosi's words follow the Trump administration's obstinate refusal to give an inch on the numerous investigations Congress is attempting to conduct.
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He was a few obstinate hairs away from completing the balding process and his stomach was bulging out from under a stained T-shirt.
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Inquiries from journalists became mired in an obstinate bureaucracy, and media coverage of government climate research dropped 80 percent after the rules were imposed.
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However, you will be amazed at the power of Mold Armor Instant Mold & Mildew Stain Remover to remove even the most obstinate black stains.
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I knew if I could have long enough, it would be O.K. I'm an obstinate kind of person, so challenges are to be met.
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True, the Global Times, a chest-thumping tabloid, accused the American president of "gambling" that China will be cowed by his "capricious and obstinate attitude".
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There's the moment when she stabs a pencil through a styrofoam cup, pulling it out and letting the liquid run everywhere, just to be obstinate.
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It doubled down on Minimalism by building many songs on obstinate, incessant repetition; it also daringly expanded Wire's studio palette with effects, multitracking and synthesizers.
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What set Edison apart, he notes, were the traits and habits — "contrary thinking, obstinate repetition, daydreaming, delight in difficulty" — that enhanced his God-given intellect.
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Apted, like a social scientist, emphasizes the role of big, obstinate forces; his participants almost invariably take the opposing side of agency and self-determination.
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Trump is bold on coal and cold on renewables and obstinate in refusing to acknowledge the real national security challenges associated with global climate change.
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Building that foundation was an arduous process, forcing even the most obstinate utility regulators in fossil fuel-heavy states like Texas to grapple with climate change.
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Because Sunday night's episode of Trust was about a woman speaking the truth to a stubborn, obstinate man who won't take her seriously, almost on principle.
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Have you ever encountered obstinate callers who didn't believe you or want to take your advice, perhaps due to religious beliefs fear of perceived medical costs?
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So, we have two Zinks: one the pleasant author of pleasant and entertaining novels, the other an obstinate obscurantist at war with the idea of fiction.
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It only reinforces the feeling of stagnation, that the product that represents the sport's pinnacle is too obstinate or shortsighted, or both, to become truly dynamic.
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Besides, the real power in the household belongs not to Chase but to his obstinate wards, and he and Alex quickly become partners in their care.
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Even the notoriously obstinate San Francisco climate cooperated, as if it had been pre-briefed on the importance of the moment in the evolution of this artist.
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The former Southern Charm star and his ex-girlfriend reunited over dinner at Obstinate Daughter on Sullivan's island in Charleston, South Carolina, on Sunday, PEOPLE can confirm.
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Earlier this week, Juppe had uncharacteristically harsh words for Fillon, saying he had wasted The Republican party's strong lead in the opinion polls and calling him obstinate.
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But obstinate executives refused to start selling the machine to other companies and individuals, thus missing out on Xerox's best chance to enter the personal computing market.
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On March 10 in Miami, during the most recent Republican debate, Trump gave us a glimpse into how he plans to win this final, most obstinate battle.
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He's the romantic Holy Grail, and her obstinate belief in their short, long-gone relationship is at the center of this strangely conceived yet ultimately endearing novel.
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On the other hand, the Fed may insist on being obstinate, and for the sake of propriety doesn't want to look as if the markets are bullying it.
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And yet her most dangerous enemy is not an obstinate European Union or even the opposition Labour Party but the fanatical right wing of her own Conservative Party.
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But experts say it's a losing fight for businesses, and one that could cost them customers or, in the case of a particularly obstinate business owners, their freedom.
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With this brand-new choice — paradise on earth or speedy demise — the "obstinate little man" made a revolution that shook the world and inspired tyrants round the globe.
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" She added: "She was in touch with her doctors, but she was a little bit more obstinate — one of those personalities where 'don't tell me what to do.
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But the Senate rules also allow the majority to fight back, to raise the cost of obstruction and make an obstinate minority think twice about employing such tactics.
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Moreover, although more moderate in tone, it hearkens of another time when France stood alone in an obstinate position vis-a-vis the UK and its relationship to Europe.
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And frustrated by my obstinate refusal to understand some point of quantum physics (that I still don't understand), he ran over my toes in an elevator with his wheelchair.
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As Mr. Nunes sees it, the cycle of confrontation is part of a legitimate effort by him and other House Republicans to conduct oversight of obstinate law enforcement officials.
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But once the Americans had won their independence, how could the declaration's legal principles be applied if an American government became as abusive and obstinate as King George had been?
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In the midst of the Great Recession, facing an obstinate Republican opposition in Congress, there was little enough support for a stimulus plan, let alone new aid projects for Africa.
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Scrappy drawings of a curmudgeon youngster with a halo of curly hair and an obstinate, hunched posture are the themes of a second-generation, immigrant-born artist navigating her past.
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Mr. Murphy has also challenged Mr. Rubio's obstinate support for the failed embargo on Cuba, which puts him on the right side of history and, increasingly, public opinion in Florida.
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" On another occasion, he characterized Dr. Hawking to his face as "one of the most obstinate people in the world; no, he is the most infuriating person in the universe.
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Others involved the discussions believed Sanders' team, which initially insisted on a rapid, one-year transition to single-payer, would ultimately be too obstinate to attract support from other senators.
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The fact that by 2026 she had developed extensive business interests in all those countries was pointed out by a couple of obstinate old newspapers but generally dismissed as irrelevant.
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Still, you could see the two sisters' close likeness: they were big and broad-shouldered like their father, with forthright, open pink faces, long, flat cheeks, an obstinate, set jaw.
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Mr. Visinescu, who has continued to receive his state pension, which has further angered many people, has been obstinate, denying the accusations and maintaining that he was simply adhering to orders.
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In PEOPLE's exclusive clip from Sunday's new episode of KUWTK, Kim lays into her big sister for being obstinate about her schedule as she tries to coordinate a family photo shoot.
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Sadly, it was not to be, as I received another correspondence from the evil headquarters of the California DMV: I was bowled over by their obstinate rejection of reason and sanity.
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If anyone is splitting the party and undercutting Democrats' chances, if anyone is paving the way for a second Trump term, it isn't Sanders—it's his most obstinate and obstreperous opponents.
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President Donald Trump is maintaining his demands for $5 billion in wall money; Democrats are equally obstinate against funding it, while Senate Republicans are seemingly ready to give him the funds.
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In the trailer, Richard and his gang of misfits — male hoodie-clad spazzes with more coding aptitude than common sense — endure nosebleeds, fashion mishaps and awkward conversations with obstinate, wealthy assholes.
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This début novel flits from 1941 to 1987, charting the life of Knot, a smart, obstinate woman in her twenties who teaches school in a mostly African-American town in North Carolina.
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Maybe they'll slide right from there into a loving relationship — or maybe they'll be as obstinate as they've always been and spin this incident into even more reasons they shouldn't be together.
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Happily, we were just being obstinate idiots, and his contemporary re-rub is a suitably slamming big room house joint that sizzles like a particularly good slab of lamb on a Sunday.
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The two share similar backgrounds in the Japanese context as well: The product of highly educated families, early exposure to Western culture in the home, an obstinate pursuit of non-conformist paths.
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"Thief liar obstinate greedy": with these four exasperated words, written in 1491, after a decade in Milan, Leonardo described the figure with whom he had the most enduring relationship of his life.
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But not even a year later, I became as obstinate as ever when I faced my own devastating break up, which happened on the heels of losing a mother figure, my grandmother.
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It's unclear what exactly happened, but it looks like Bam was wasted when he got on a Southwest flight in Atlanta and was told he was too drunk and/or obstinate to fly.
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Yet he says that during recent visits to the south and the obstinate north, a Thaksinite bastion, he encountered far more supporters than he expected, despite not being able to hold any rallies.
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Juppe accused Fillon of wasting the strong lead his party was enjoying before the scandal broke, called him obstinate, and expressed disquiet at his attacks on the media and judiciary investigating the case.
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Ricardel seemed to have crossed a line in taking on the first lady's office over the trip, making what some viewed as challenging requests and being obstinate, a White House official told CNN.
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But Mueller's obstinate refusal to answer questions — he instead repeatedly referred lawmakers to his report — gave Republicans the impression that if Democrats hoped to gain momentum from the hearing, they'd be sorely disappointed.
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It's going to be hard to sell this tax reform bill well enough to get all the obstinate and wary Republican senators in that slim four-seat GOP majority on the "yes" side.
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To many, votes in both chambers are viewed as a possible breeding ground for the virus to spread because lawmakers use the time to circulate on the floor or pigeonhole an obstinate colleague.
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They prevailed as the dinosaurs fell, through extinction after extinction, obstinate and mostly unchanging; according to the fossil record, a fern from 180 million years ago was almost identical to its descendants today.
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"Unholy Elixir" feels unstable but obstinate from the start, with deep, wavery, not-quite-in-tune synthesizers and a lurching beat; other synthesizer riffs arrive to turn the track into glowering synth-pop.
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One thing that the Affordable Care Act taught us is just how obstinate and obstructionist state officials can be and how their opposition to federal policies can hamper the full implementation of any law.
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"I remember once walking in the street and suddenly really seeing the big heavy buildings in their obstinate actuality and realizing I simply couldn't imagine all this recalcitrant matter transformed by socialism," he writes.
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"Sly, profane, obstinate, stealthy, dangerous to public health, low idea of morality, mentally below par," reads the 1926 case file of one woman who was selected for sterilization at Sonoma State Home in Eldridge.
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But Trump has been obstinate in the face of those political warning signs, instead concerned that repealing and replacing Obamacare remains the one signature 2016 campaign promise he has yet to make good on.
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Now, Apple has decided to go up against the same obstinate monolith of US national security interests that helped a Bush get reelected and turned the National Security Agency into a mythological all-seeing eye.
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The people who care for him see a driven, obstinate man who has constructed around himself a maze of deflections, but they see this behavior as evidence of vulnerability, rather than of malice or narcissism.
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There's also a concern that if Democrats go down the inquiry route, they will create a new precedent to open impeachment proceedings anytime a future administration is obstinate in handing over desired documents and witnesses.
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Bibi, her lumbering, obstinate mother ("Fiona gets all of her diva tendencies from her mom," said Christina Gorsuch, the curator for African mammals) gave birth six weeks early, and the baby weighed only 230 pounds.
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It is, however, a very handy, trusty knife that features a sturdy build and a tanto blade to be more durable and strong when you need to force the knife through a particularly obstinate potato.
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"As Capitol Hill became more polarized, presidents became more willing or reliant on executive orders to overcome an obstinate Congress," said former Representative Steve Israel of New York, who once led the Democratic campaign arm.
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Bibi, her lumbering, obstinate mother ("Fiona gets all of her diva tendencies from her mom," said Christina Gorsuch, the curator for African mammals) gave birth six weeks early, and the baby weighed only 29 pounds.
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On the one hand, I think there's merit in the idea that engagement with a group — even one as clearly obstinate as the Trump administration seems to be — can be a method of changing opinions.
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They know better, and they proposed cutting the corporate rate themselves, and yet they still just hold on to this obstinate, just anti-Trump position, and it&aposll come back and bite them you know where?
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In Westwood, she proves to be an obstinate and unpredictable subject and interviewee, which is a shot in the arm for an otherwise workmanlike biographical documentary, giving a look at both her life and her personality.
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Water is as different from air as from stones, and you must find your way through its structures, its ancientness, the history of an entity without response to you and yet complicit in your obstinate intrusion.
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Some of the Americans concluded that because Mao had the support of the people, he would have the upper hand in the inevitable civil war with Chiang Kai-shek, viewed by Washington as obstinate and corrupt.
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On "Shut Up Kiss Me," we're presented with the quietly defiant, but soon-to-be obstinate, tone of a person fighting, grasping even, at the last straws of a relationship on the brink of falling over the edge.
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And maybe you weren't feeling all that great about yourself, torn up by life's obstinate miseries, but by the time you had paid the tab and were ready to get back at it, you sure did feel wonderful.
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That Cesar somehow manages to be obstinate in the face of that anecdote stretches believability; it could be weak writing, or acting, or direction — or it could be a sign that maybe this group is fractured beyond repair.
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"Her resistance to that tells you a lot about her; this absolute, obstinate nature of hers was vital in getting her through her reign," said Ms. Coleman, who played the companion to Doctor Who from 2012 to 2015.
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In the middle of an abysmal series against the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference semifinals, Irving looked and sounded as obstinate as ever, freezing out his teammates in blowout losses before professing his greatness in news conferences.
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One big thing: Farah's move gives the Trump administration a direct line of communication to one of the more obstinate wings of the GOP, just as the Freedom Caucus looks set to put up a fight over tax reform.
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But Ricardel seems to have crossed a line in taking on Melania Trump's office over the first lady's trip to Africa in October, making what some viewed as challenging requests and being obstinate, the White House official told CNN.
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I've stepped not just inside the male head but into the reality of those urges whose obstinate pressure by its persistence can menace one's rationality, urges sometimes so intense they may even be experienced as a form of lunacy.
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The primary results could adjust the balance of power both within the state party and in Albany, the state capital, where a divided legislature -- and, progressive critics say, an obstinate governor -- has stymied efforts to pass more ambitious legislation.
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Less than a week after the shutdown ended, House Democrats are walking a fine line of avoiding being seen as soft on Trump's goal of building a wall while also not appearing obstinate in talks aimed at preventing another shutdown.
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President Obama's transgender bathrooms, release of convicted felons, opposition to photo IDs, amnesty for illegals, rising healthcare premiums and obstinate refusal to call Islamic terrorism by its real name have so alienated them that they are now rising in protest.
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At the center of "Gorilla and the Bird" is a beautiful and profoundly affecting portrait of the Bird, McDermott's mother — a woman as real, raw and obstinate in her love for the Gorilla as he is in his love for her.
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It is Britain's misfortune that at this moment, when cooperation and statesmanship are needed to prevent political and economic disaster, both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition are known for being cautious, obstinate, unimaginative, tribal and charmless.
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In Aakaash Israni's tough, woody bass playing; the desiccated thump of Qasim Naqvi's snare drum; and the obstinate patterns Amino Belyamani plays on muted piano strings, you might hear influences ranging from deep house to the Gnawa music of Morocco.
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She'd found that a good melody could cajole even her most obstinate students into completing dreaded tasks: There was a song about washing hands, and one about cleaning up messes, and another about how shouting and running were for outside only.
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"Cruz is a leader of the 'purity caucus' that is obstinate, grandstanding and very un-Reagan like and very frustrating for his Senate colleagues," Ed Rogers, chairman of the BGR Group, one of the major lobbying firms, wrote to me in an email.
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Darting through Olivia and Antonio's star-crossed tale, the supporting players prove a plucky, engaging lot, adding to the story's energy and resonance — none more so than Antonio's obstinate sister, Filomena, who emerges from the book's shadows to become its moral compass.
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Even so, Mr. Trump remains obstinate in his "war on coal" statements and steadfast to his bloated campaign promises to laid-off miners, despite expert opinion, expressed in the study, that lifting vital environmental controls "will not materially improve" the coal industry's prospects.
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"If Xi has a big win in the congress, I think that gives him full freedom of action to manage the relationship how he chooses," Mr. Johnson said, with options including being more obstinate in the face of demands from President Trump.
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"It may be that coming out of this period, where Congress has been so obstinate, so difficult to move ... that people are looking for someone whose central skill is how to work the power structure," Larry Grisolano, a top Obama pollster, told Scheiber.
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Indeed, by assuring people that whoever the party decided on was destined to win, the party decides theory seems to have encouraged establishment-friendly candidates to be unusually obstinate about staying in the race and focusing their energy on knifing one another.
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Niger's 'little Paris' The city of Arlit interrupts a blasted desert landscape, with the city's outskirts marked with piles of dirt and brick and only the most obstinate signs of life — spiny shrubs and wavy and colorless grasses that seem transposed from the ocean bottom.
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The more cheery photos were a response to a widely circulated shot of Trump at the G7 with an apparently obstinate facial expression, as a seemingly exasperated Angela Merkel looked on -- a scene that the president says has been unfairly taken out of context.
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I find myself struggling to understand what any two characters see in each other; the men who were my young romantic heroes turned out to be entitled, obstinate or immature, and the women lack any agency to fight their way out of their circumstances.
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We were at a pool party, and a wine-drunk Angie, who was 26 at the time, became increasingly loud and obstinate, arguing with my dad and his friends and alienating herself from all the other 303 and 50-something adults at the party.
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For Mr. Putin, it's likely everything he hoped for — America riddled with political infighting and mired in investigations, a weakened NATO alliance vulnerable to aggression and a United States president seeking his adoration, obstinate and ignorant of the great caper the Kremlin just orchestrated.
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And while Obama may have already resolved to merely make the Supreme Court justice a political cudgel with which to bash obstinate Republicans, I believe that he places a value on getting his justice seated that goes beyond just the political or policy gains.
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Edmund Wilson, in " Patriotic Gore " (21955), his book on the literature of the Civil War, describes Tourgée as "an obstinate man, physically and morally courageous, with bad judgment in practical matters and possessed by an intransigent idealism," and Luxenberg's portrait is much the same.
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"Having used the 'Meat Juice' (which represents all the soluble elements of beef in the most assimilable form,) in many obstinate and almost hopeless cases of disease, I can confidently recommend it to the favorable consideration of the medical profession," J.B. McCaw, M.D., testified.
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Juppe's uncharacteristically harsh words for Fillon, whom he called obstinate for staying on, exposed the depth of frustration within France's mainstream political right, which has never failed in postwar history to reach the second round of a presidential election but is now forecast to do so.
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What does this automation mean for the person on the other end of the line, who won't be sure if they're dealing with an especially obstinate customer or a malfunctioning AI. Every time Google I/O rolls around, I'm reminded of Google's immensely powerful position in our daily lives.
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Where the prosecution is presented as obstinate, naïve and arrogant (lead prosecutor Marcia Clark, played by Sarah Paulson, calls the case a "slam dunk" and remarks coolly that Simpson "practically did [her] job for [her]"), Mr Simpson's legal counsel introduces intrigue into the narrative and propels it forward.
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But there's no firm evidence that the obstinate Thieu, who was wary of the talks to begin with, would have gone along if not for Nixon's efforts; hence, to make Nixon — and not Thieu — the decisive historical agent in the scuttling amounts, I believe, to an unjustified overreach.
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But if Trump is the nominee, his loss will only further empower Cruz and other obstinate members like him of the Grand Old Party — who wear their unwillingness to compromise as a badge of honor — to argue that they are the only answer to both the party's and America's problems.
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But in a speech renouncing the chance to run, the 71-year-old had harsh words for Fillon, saying he had wasted the strong lead The Republican party was enjoying before the scandal over his wife's pay broke, calling him obstinate, and expressing disquiet at his attacks on the judiciary investigating the case.
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Twice weekly for the past six months, I jabbed myself with a needle, pumped a half of a syringe of fluid into my stomach or one of my thighs, occasionally felt a sting, a few times drew blood and always wondered if I was being brave or silly, determined or just plain obstinate.
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Its government had encouraged the border blockade, partly out of sympathy with Madhesis, many of whom have kin on the Indian side, but also out of fear that Kathmandu's obstinate elites might tip Nepal into another round of strife—the country is recovering from years of turmoil, including a long insurgency by Maoist guerrillas.
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It's the same thing the rest of us see — that she's obstinate and pushes him away and that things have never been easy for them — but instead of using those as reasons why they're not a match (as Bachelor Nation has), Peter thinks they're signs that they're destined for a passionate, never-dull relationship.
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"A decade ago, the mayor was pretty obstinate and obtuse on issues related to black, brown, and working communities and how his policies affect that, and the most powerful one is policing, but there are other ones as well," Williams, who was on the City Council during Bloomberg's last term as mayor, told BuzzFeed News.
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Last night, the 18-year-old painted the town red in a strapless red latex number featuring a black stripe at the waist and down the sides (that looks like it could have been borrowed from her big sis Kim's closet), accessorized with a simple pair of black pumps and that infuriatingly obstinate Cartier Love bracelet.
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" Even a Supreme Court associate justice, David Davis, a Republican who had served as Lincoln's campaign manager, reportedly opposed Johnson's impeachment, even though he believed him to have "qualities totally unfitting him to be the ruler of a people in the fix we are in" and calling him "obstinate, self-willed, combative, slow to act" and in possession of "no executive ability.
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The British, being obstinate, decided that the temperature of their concert halls had such an impact on sound waves that the A above middle C should be set at a little above 439 Hz. Arguments raged on, different standards were enforced, and composers and concert halls across the world continued to use their own frequencies until 1939 when the International Federation of Standardizing Agencies held a conference in London.
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Morrison&aposs political rivals have also criticized his administration for its approach to climate policy,"His totally inadequate response to these fires and his obstinate refusal to accept what we have known for decades: that burning climate-changing fossil fuels would lead to more frequent and intense bushfires is putting the lives of Australians at risk," Richard Di Natale, leader of Australia&aposs Greens parties, said of Morrison last week.
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The most important thing about this bill is that it would end the USAID/UNDP discrimination against religious minorities qua religious minorities, which rests on an obstinate legal theory at the UN. In spite of the fact that the UN Genocide Convention, to which the U.S. is a party, explicitly addresses the need to redress genocide based on religion, the UN refuses to aid groups based on their religion.
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The breadth of Kelly's work on view is less of an attempt to confuse the viewer than it is an accurate reflection of his art practice and philosophy on how he believes art should be made: "You see, I have this obstinate streak which came about after a brief and harried brush with art school and its insufferable mantra, 'find your voice, stick with one thing, and master it,'" he explains to Creators.
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