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...same time, he's got to pay off some Russian mafiosi he has offended or end up dead himself. Oh, yeah, it's also his first day on the job with a new partner, an idealistic and ambitious square named Jake Hoyt (Ethan Hawke), who needs to be taught the ropes. Or put that another way: Alonzo wants to entangle the rookie in those ropes, make Jake complicit in his corruption...
...prove to her that her time was not spent in vain. He’ll never be able to show people he is so much more than just a victim of the Vietnam War. He’ll never be able to teach people what he’s taught me: that the bonds of family mean everything; that muffled grunts and confused glances can mean “I love...
...took a road trip with my brother and my uncle out to Colorado, and every night we’d stop and play cards for five to six hours a night. They’re the ones who taught me. It wasn’t too competitive. It was more like 50 cents and dollars. And then the stakes started increasing a little bit. I was probably up to win or lose $50 a night by the time I was 17. By the time I was 18, win or lose $400-$500 a night. As for the evolution...
...learned to control it, but it definitely has the potential. I’d say poker taught me far more lessons than it cost me, in the sense that I’ve learned to emotionally control it. If I lose $500 in a couple of days, and I’ve stayed up until five in the morning with a paper due the next day at 10 a.m., I realize at five in the morning that I’m in a pretty tight spot. I just spent nine hours losing $500 when I should have been writing...
...openly voicing their opinions on the role of gender in terrorism. But one attendee’s thoughts caught my attention: A student, who quite eloquently disagreed with my article and general theories on life, mentioned mid-comment that my “women’s studies had taught me those views...