Edmar Mednis Quotes
Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.
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We are so Post-Modern that we don't realize how Post-Modern we are anymore.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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One of the missions of 'The Nightly Show' was to have a conversation with America in a sense, and talk about the things that people didn't want to talk about it.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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The oceans produce up to 70 percent of our oxygen, they shape our climate, and they support an American oceans economy larger than our nation's entire agriculture sector.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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Neither does man have gills for living in a water environment; yet it is not sinful to explore the depths of the oceans in search of food or other blessings.
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My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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I want to go to college to study journalism. I want to speak French fluently, to travel. My mom was a journalist and it's in my blood.
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What is OK is to spend money for productivity. What is not OK is just to light money on fire.
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When you call people we you find it easy to be unfair to them, since you yourself are included in the condemnation.
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The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute:
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Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver! Aieeee!!!
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It's in this book I was reading. Apparently, there's a little red demon dwarf that haunts the city, and before every major bad thing that's happened, it's appeared to somebody. Last time, he appeared in a Cadillac.
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Being blonde now doesn't mean Marilyn Monroe vulnerability. Blonde in the Eighties means being in control.
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Police departments across the nation must develop nonviolent 'rules of engagement,' so that they don't reflexively respond to suspected crimes with violence. This will require more in-depth training in the behavioral psychology of conflict resolution so police have tried-and-true techniques of preventing and de-escalating violence.
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The heat around young actors burns out. Natural ability and magnetism only get you so far. The rest is hard work.
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'Bonfire' was kicking around for a very long time. It was an idea I wanted to explore for a television show. Then I was given this weird gift of time when 'Jessica Jones' finished season one. I got really organized and just kind of banged it out, but it took a long time. It took two years to even have a first draft.
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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
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How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.
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I'm not a big believer in second-guessing decisions.
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My fans are probably largely female; it wasn't until 'How to Make it in America' that guys started coming up to me: 'You're Bryan Greenberg.' 'Yeah... Don't hurt me. What do you want?' 'Love the show.'
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Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.
