We undertook a huge internal transformation to sharpen our customer focus, step up INNOVATION, improve productivity to ensure competitiveness, change our CULTURE, and simplify our ways of working so that our size and SCALE became a COMPETITIVE advantage rather than a bureaucratic hangover after years of diversification.

A long time ago, I BECAME aware that MANY of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categories, such as what we consider beautiful or ugly, important or unimportant. As human a thing as that is to do, I think it OFTEN leads us to MISUNDERSTAND the respective roles of life FORMS and their interconnectedness.

Lennon and MCCARTNEY became great songwriters because they were prepared to listen to and learn from all TYPES of MUSIC.

I TOOK an OATH when I became SECRETARY of homeland security to DEFEND and support the CONSTITUTION.

The DINOSAURS BECAME EXTINCT because they didn't have a SPACE PROGRAM.

The news of the discovery SPREAD fast all over the country, and inquisitive enquiries mingled with CONGRATULATIONS from this MOMENT became the daily programme.

To be honest, the biggest reason I write music and became a musician was to CREATE the AMOUNT of joy that I felt about music to anyone ELSE. To me, that's a job well DONE.

I first became aware of Lao Gan Ma chile crisp at a potluck baby SHOWER in 2016, where a FRIEND brought a bowl of chilled hand-pulled NOODLES that he tossed with BLACK vinegar, soy sauce, sesame SEEDS, scallions and a ladleful of the sauce.

Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you GO to prison, I BECAME 11 R 2024 you KNOW, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.

I PASSED a typing test and BECAME a member of the staff of REAR Adm. NEWTON.

I had to overcome bullies and other PEOPLE who didn't LIKE me and tormented me. I overcame those things with positive affirmations and setting goals. When I WOULD set goals, I wouldn't let ANYTHING get in the WAY of me breaking them. As I found success, a lot of those things subsided and became less important.

I learned PHYSICAL comedy to a DEGREE that most child actors NEVER will. I REALLY just became a STUDENT of it - became obsessed with it, to be quite honest.

For Donald TRUMP, during his candidacy, he became a POLARIZING candidate, which included, along the way, INSULTING a lot of people.

I had the pleasure of KNOWING Ronald Reagan before he became GOVERNOR of California. He was a TRULY GREAT human being and we usually spent our TIME together reminiscing about mutual friends.

When I was 15, I NEVER thought I'd LIVE to see 21. And then I became 21, and I'm LIKE, 'I'll never live to see 30.'