In "Cheech is Not My Real Name," Cheech Marin writes candidly about growing up as a wise-cracking kid in South Central LA, resisting the draft, and his chance meeting with Tommy Chong, and how they formed one of the most successful comedy acts of all time.Breaking up, reuniting, and still performing together to this day.
felt her you know kind of kind of skipping steps to try to keep up with me but also um tugging me back um like resisting my my forward movement kind of pulling me in another Direction and then when I looked down uh I realized why shewas she was staring like straight down at her shoes and trying to time her footfalls so that she stepped within the
look, AI is going to be our worthy successor. It is desirable for them to succeed us, and it's also inevitable. So there's no point resisting it. Resistance is futile. You might as well get on board and let it rip.
So I think people in my generation who grew up, we were young in the early '70s, we were questioning authority, we were resisting everything, we were saying we'll have sex when we want to have sex and how we want to have sex, and with who we want to have sex, cohabitating, just really not trusting anyone over 30--
And the reason for this is that I wrote "Masala Lab" at a time obviously just before the pandemic when I'd been resisting writing a book for almost a decade. Penguin has been asking me to write something.
And so we're working through trying to help give resources to institutions on how do you facilitate those kinds of interactions, and how do you So instead of resisting them, I just brought them in and said, OK, here's everything I've seen.
And so I go back to this notion of resist . We are resisting to do what? Well, presume-- To get what?
Every single day. Every single day you worry about what the food quality, you worry about your employees, you worry about the business-- The restaurant world is resisting that now.
And he not only ignored the narrative of taking it from the worst to the best at the time, but even when he writes his memoirs years later, he's still resisting that. And the reason is, he knew that what was actually responsible for the 49ers winning was what he called the standard of performance.
And did those shape your life, or were you able to resist them? As we look at resisting the noise, there's a couple stories I'll share. This is Caroline Thompson.
And, in fact, the police shot one of the militia leaders recently-- and under questionable or-- according to the police he shot himself twice in the chest, so-- while resisting arrest. So, you know, there's that.
And it does exist. If you're somehow resisting the concept of learning to be more persuasive because you think it's cheesy or manipulative, that is actually, I think, an excuse that is holding you back from furthering your career.
idea of writing a memoir for me is resisting not just the tyranny of man and of politics but resisting that worst tyranny of all which is the tyranny of death that it is only through speaking and telling of the story that we resist
in Columbus against a bill that was banning gender affirming care for minors. And it was something I'd been resisting a little bit doing anything kind of that overtly political because when I became famous, I was expecting to become the target of a lot of attacks.
You don't head for the hills. You find a way of resisting , becoming a weird shape that can't be so easily appropriated where you are. And then the next chapter is called Anatomy of a Refusal, which I open by talking about this amazing performance piece by Pilvi Tuakala, who's a Finnish artist who
really have little shot at resisting these um stress hormones that the brain
assumes that we ourselves no matter who we are that we deserve to be these Central actors in in the drama of the universe and then by kind of resisting that by holding things at a distance uh we trap ourselves inside our minds in attempting to get away from it but the world it turns out is just it's just too big and too weird to to
What happens when we stop resisting life and we just open to what is there's a lot of spaciousness, a lot of room
You've repeated this story enough times that it starts to become true. And so that's what Walsh was resisting , not only at the time, but then decades later. And the reason is-- again-- is that stories, they don't change the past.
And I know when he's resisting the layers that he has.
Now obviously the people who are resisting any form of regulation, no surprise who they are, namely the microfinance investment funds.
There weren't a lot who were resisting this.
to certain standards of behavior resisting the Department itself? -- Steve Grove: And just -- Evgeny Morozov: as a kind of champion right.
Many other tribal governments are asserting their sovereignty these days — and resisting efforts to restrict it when necessary.
schematic because their bodies are sort of actively resisting it.
And so you go into the creative phase of resisting with the idea of eventually building community.
And it's about how we've been uncovering and resisting illegal surveillance in Mexico.
In this immediate moment, we're resisting to protect our communities, and all of our communities are under attack in various forms. And then I would also say that we are resisting for freedom, like we're resisting for freedom of everything. And it's something to strive for.
they say it's actually not the parents who are resisting , it's many of our teachers.
Now, resisting this donut during the course of this meeting is not just one simple act of self-control.
doesn't face an organized opposition where the opposition is resisting that branding, you know, so if France wants to be the city of
and and and the whole idea of writing a memoir is preserving memory the whole idea of writing a memoir for me is resisting not just the tyranny of man and of politics but resisting that worst tyranny of all which is the tyranny of
holders of this debt idea because they're still resisting the idea that government as opposed to business should play a bigger role and that we can do
The headlines would have said, he was resisting arrest.
within our communities. So basically resisting those internal forces that can disrupt it.
and gotten right back in the fight, starting resisting .
the democratic resistance. So for the resisting people who want sanity in the country and in the government and lack of overcoming
More equal opportunity for everyone. Yeah. I think we're resisting for two things. In this immediate moment, we're resisting to protect our communities, and all of our communities are under attack in various forms.
Yeah. I think we're resisting for two things. In this immediate moment, we're resisting to protect our communities, and all of our communities are under attack in various forms. And then I would also say that we are resisting for freedom, like we're resisting for freedom of everything.
And I see that she's finding a lot of freedom in resisting that prescribed path, but also gets lost in some ways, too.
emaciated after he was fasting for about 40 days and Jesus responded resisting
so earlier when you were talking about animals that are capable of resisting Venom you had a couple of examples and I
And so it just happened, as he understood it, that the run to the summit-- to the Super Bowl-- was within three seasons instead of seven seasons, or even one season. And so what he was resisting , then, because he was actually there at the time-- he knew that it wasn't so simple as worst team in football to best team in football.
With your neck, you're resisting that pressure.
And that was something that Ronald Reagan strongly objected to and came in resisting that, running for office on the promise of American greatness.
This was a lesson on how to arrest people if they are resisting .
So you're kind of holding, you're resisting where life is actually already gonna take you.
be able to marshal some of this evidence against the people who are resisting yoga who might benefit from it. I've heard that you shouldn't drag people
And I think they had evidence showing that this shoe was the most impact-resisting shoe on the market.
I had the best, most impact-resisting shoe in the world, 15 minutes later, ain't going to be going anywhere soon.