So I felt the tremendous weight of that obligation when I got the remarkable phone call inviting me to attend the State of the Union as a distinguished guest of the First Lady.
Here, we take a look at some of the most remarkable mobile phone films to surface in recent months.
The township contains a remarkable number of "phone shops": businesses that specialise in renting out time on the phone.
Thai operator True came in second — which is remarkable given it sells phones in just one country — ahead of Asus and India's Lava, which is also working closely with operators in Thailand.
In parallel, the recent advances in portable wireless telecommunication technologies, especially mobile phones, provide remarkable opportunities for healthcare applications in a variety of fields including epidemic preparedness, public health monitoring, and distributed healthcare systems.
His gift for rejuvenation is remarkable and, far from phoning it in, he has already scrapped this comeback album (when it was known as Detox or, to give it its official title "The long-awaited Detox") simply because he wasn't happy with it, sales be damned.
What GiveDirectly has done is to capitalise on the remarkable rise of mobile phone use in developing countries – and the growth of mobile money-transfer systems such as M-Pesa in Kenya – to give individual donors the ability to participate in such schemes too.
"What Joe has done is remarkable," Parcells said in a phone interview.
They spent an hour on the phone, which she said was remarkable because she later discovered he was not a phone person.
Able and empowered women are no more remarkable to this generation than smart phones.
