The oldest son was dismissed as "too much of a playboy," the middle son as "more interested in video games" than governing. Kim Jong-un, they said, was too young and inexperienced.
'My GP didn't think it could possibly be breast cancer,' she recalls. 'he said at 25 I was too young and anyway there is no family history of any cancer, let alone breast cancer.'
Howard Penney, an analyst at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey in New York, thinks Starbucks needs to cut its rate of expansion in America by half. "They are a mature market," he says.
Though the director initially felt she was too young for the part of a girl who falls in love with a killer, her surprising maturity finally won him over.
Adams believes that he was too young - 21 - when given the Arsenal armband, but the former centre back feels that Cesc Fabregas will not make the same mistakes as him.
They are more likely to grow up in neighborhoods that their parents say aren't great for raising children, and their parents worry about them getting shot, beaten up or in trouble with the law.
The offer is seen as part of an effort to ease tension over U.S. military strikes recently on the Pakistan side of the border, and U.S. impatience with Pakistan's hesitance to fight insurgents.