In tournament play, it's generally advisable to avoid risking large sums of chips in coin flip situations, like pocket sixes versus A-K. After all, the pocket pair is only a very slight heads-up favorite.
We are guilty for sending teams into foreign countries to advise them how to be like us.
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less.
Like all professors, I also do a lot of extra jobs for which I was never trained, such as advising former students as they navigate the wider world.
I see myself in public service in Zimbabwe. I would prefer an advisory role - cabinet secretary, minister of trade or the arts, or something like that. I don't want to be just a writer.
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
In another life - and as I like to say, another body - I used to teach aerobics.
Aerosmith is such a powerful band; I mean, it's like a steam locomotive.
Over the years, when you're in a band with a catalog like Aerosmith's, you accumulate a lot of instruments to duplicate those songs.
I wanted to be an aerospace engineer because I really like space. But I didn't go to the army.
I really like Pam Grier's whole 'Coffy' aesthetic. It's just natural. It's not even anything that they were overdoing back then. I really like that natural beauty kind of thing. But at the same time, I really like thick, winged eyeliner.
The blue-collar culture, it's not really a buttoned-up aesthetic. It's a heavy-labor thing because you're, like, sweating.
Astrology is an aesthetic affront. It cheapens astronomy, like using Beethoven for commercial jingles.
I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic.
The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.
The exciting thing about Bleachers and fun. are they're different, and they're aesthetically different in many ways. But it's also like my role is very different, and that's cool.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I like Donald. I guess I shouldn't call him that. I like President Trump. He's affable. He's funny.
Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.
