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Crazy, but true, like Annalise passing up Bonnie's Vicoden bottle. Twice!
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"You have no idea what you are passing up," he said.
"You have no idea what you are passing up," he said.
Advocates say people are even passing up vital care because of deportation fears.
Passing up opportunities in the shallow waters of the warming Arctic is difficult.
What do you think of Parker passing up a role because of her hair?
It looks like Kourtney Kardashian won't be passing up ice cream or pizza anytime soon!
The women spoke about skipping work—and passing up pay—to avoid the alleged perpetrators.
And we ended up passing up two or three open shots that we should have taken.
" When she declined, Nyong'o says Weinstein replied, "You have no idea what you are passing up.
In Las Vegas, he was very selective with his shot, passing up plenty of scoring opportunities.
Given that most employees provide a matching contribution, that is like passing up on free money.
So scoring them at a crazy-good discount is an offer we don't plan on passing up.
After finding our way back, it is hard to think of ever passing up the opportunity again.
It's the latest example of a buzzy startup passing up traditional funding in favor of angel investors.
Any skepticism from friends about passing up a prestigious education, she said, weighed on her only momentarily.
Before, we had guys not ready to shoot and not stepping into shots, hesitating, passing up good shots.
Doing so risks passing up an unprecedented opportunity to protect millions of Americans from ObamaCare's most onerous provisions.
My parents offer to take me grocery shopping and that is something I am definitely not passing up.
He notes that the U.S. is passing up the opportunity to inculcate a stronger commitment to upholding democratic ideals.
I made a few bad choices, including passing up a promising internship and screwing up an interview or two.
And Michael Bloomberg is looking like a genius for passing up all the big make-or-break first primaries.
All images: Sam Rutherford/GizmodoForgive me for passing up the chance to beat the exploding battery joke into the ground.
You're working hard to break your bad habits (nice job passing up that nail polish on your last drugstore run!).
Rep. Pat Tiberi (R-Ohio) will not run for Senate in 2018, passing up a chance to try turning Sen.
Through his rhetoric and actions, Trump is passing up a chance to make history and putting Republican majorities at risk.
He keeps passing up paid meds so I'm going to guess he had the kidney replaced because he was an alcoholic.
"Gorgeous" by Taylor Swift Current artists are passing up records previously set by bands we consider to be icons of music.
He seems at peace with his new life and has no regret about passing up every offer that comes his way.
CR: My mom used to say she saw too many young women passing up opportunities because they were afraid of failing.
But by stopping at trade, the president is passing up an opportunity to truly remake the economy to serve all Americans.
At times, he is hesitant to shoot, passing up open three-pointers; he can be reticent even as defenders sag off him.
The show can hardly be accused of being pro-Brexit or pro-Boris, rarely passing up an opportunity to send up either.
This sometimes means passing up on really cool spots because leaving Kicker behind isn't an option for me most of the time.
If they did not impeach, they feared angry voters would never forgive them for passing up the chance to hold Trump accountable.
By passing up the chance to cast a ballot, voters missed the opportunity to initiate new voting habits or strengthen existing ones.
Passing up the out-of-touch insiders, they went for an overflowing souffle of crazy incompetence in the form of Donald Trump.
It's hard to grasp how embarrassing Mr. Ayers's decision is for the Trump administration without understanding what, exactly, he was passing up.
But there has also been pushback the last two years to the Super Bowl passing up excellent women performers for middling men.
So, would you be comfortable passing up the perfect property if your down payment account had fallen by 10 or 20 percent?
Ermotti appears to be passing up a clear opportunity to slash expenses, which at UBS are a relatively high 80% of revenue.
James predictably took a pounding for passing up a contested shot in the lane — though the Cavs went on to win the series.
That means if you're not getting enough exercise, you're passing up endorphins and other naturally occurring chemicals that can vastly improve your mood.
Had he not attempted disarmament, the Beltway pundits, think-tankers and political opposition would have castigated Trump for passing up a historic opportunity.
"If you just fly by the seat of your pants, you could be passing up opportunities that prevent you from learning (and growing!)."
In a country where football is king, no one — particularly not local politicians — wants to be responsible for passing up an N.F.L. franchise.
But Abrams isn't passing up the opportunity to take a lucrative job in the tobacco industry or even a high-powered law firm.
"We don't want him passing up open looks," Maryland Coach Mark Turgeon said of Wiggins, who had 15 points on Sunday against Marquette.
Rob Kardashian is so out of his shell now ... he's even passing up the full service pumps during his outings with GF Blac Chyna.
The new management demonstrated its commitment to frugality this off-season, passing up splashy signings in favor of more modest tinkering with the roster.
In one sequence, he angered Boeheim by passing up a makable shot and then soon after by absent-mindedly stepping on the end line.
Clinton, passing up a chance to issue the kind of lengthy salute that many, in and out of the Democratic Party, had expected and craved.
Green was taken with the 35th pick in the 2012 draft, and a number of teams are kicking themselves for passing up the versatile forward.
Although these services certainly do the job of helping me relax, I find myself passing up on regular visits because of the ever-increasing prices.
"Well, we thought he was out, but God knows I'm not doing that again," Girardi said of not passing up the chance for a review.
By isolating themselves from Hollywood, Christian filmmakers are passing up not only on "secular messages," but on the mentoring that other budding talent are receiving.
If firms are passing up easy opportunities to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by re-using waste, then governments have set the price of emissions too low.
Then faster, passing up through a tiny pine forest, hearing mourning doves coo loudly at one another among the strange bonsai tangle of the scrub oaks.
Curry recalled a play last season in which the Warriors threw seven passes — "everyone passing up a decent shot for a wide-open 3," he said.
A Sanders senior aide who spoke on condition of anonymity said it would be difficult to envision the Vermont senator passing up Sunday's debate in Arizona.
Passing up on Josh Allen seems fairly surprising, as does the decision to not trade down in hopes of filling the team's bare cupboards more quickly.
Jon Jones says he's a fool for passing up a chance to hang with Muhammad Ali ... and tells TMZ Sports the regret's still eatin' him up.
Standard rooms come with city or water views and passing up on the latter would be a missed opportunity to experience what really makes this hotel great.
You wouldn't forgive yourself for passing up the opportunity to bid them good day, but the very prospect of getting their attention is too much to bear.
He was hooked, passing up the chance to go to university to take dance classes in Dublin before going to the Central School of Ballet in London.
The team that led the N.H.L. in scoring during the regular season looked tentative, often passing up open looks in search of better ones that never materialized.
Hensarling, who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, announced his departure from Congress in October after passing up several opportunities to join GOP leadership in the House.
And sure, literally everyone else in the bar was ALSO passing up the chance to save a child's life, but that doesn't let YOU off the hook, right?
FedEx announced last week it would not renew its contract to provide express shipping service for Amazon in the U.S., passing up on $850 million in annual revenue.
They are passing up the chance to connect with most Americans who want a government that embraces individual entrepreneurship and the opportunities available from a market-driven economy.
So they decided to deprive the F.T.C. of a chance to confront their chief executives, also passing up the chance to make their best case to the judge.
NASCAR champ Martin Truex Jr. says his White House visit Monday to meet President Trump was "amazing" ... calling it a huge honor he would NEVER consider passing up.
"We made the decision that it's not worth passing up the potential to have a lot of fun and see the world just out of fear," she said.
If that's not your idea of retirement bliss, chances are pretty good there is a great tax-savings move right under your nose that you're mistakenly passing up.
We're not passing up on the 2019 swim trends to come, but we're giving ourselves a brief break by going the route of less is more with black swimsuits.
"And I never felt ready," Ms. Stemme said, a bit ruefully, of passing up that chance at the part, and at studying it with one of its classic exponents.
That advice leaves workers torn between staying in lousy jobs longer than they would prefer and passing up potentially good opportunities just to show they're capable of staying put.
Passing up an opportunity to attend Harvard Law School, Mr. Barlow embarked instead on a journey to India and other destinations to complete a novel, which was never published.
Greenfield complained that Disney was passing up $350 million a year in "high margin" revenue for licensing its content to Netflix to opt for this risky new untested service.
Those passing up federal aid include Hillsdale College in Michigan, whose alumni include Ms. DeVos's brother, Erik Prince, and which has benefited from large donations from the DeVos family.
In skipping Canada as his first jaunt out of the country, however, Trump is passing up the opportunity to give his team a lower-key debut on the world stage.
But some experts argue that many investors are passing up (or underutilizing) a powerful savings tool — the triple tax-advantaged health savings account — in their pursuit of a secure retirement.
Win-booking may be pleasing to our caveman brains, but to be sure, passing up good opportunities in order to finish a given session in the green makes little sense.
Given Rodriguez's insistence on Sunday that he could still be a dangerous hitter, and his gift for seizing the spotlight, it is hard to imagine him passing up the opportunity.
And that suggests that McConnell is needlessly passing up an opportunity to pursue the sort of substantive path forward Democratic and Republican members of the Problem Solvers Caucus have embraced.
"Data reframed his objective — not to win outright but to stay alive, passing up opportunities for immediate victory in favor of a strategy of survival," she says in the book.
Johnson has been one of the top-two picks available for ages, with several teams passing up a player who would likely be able to contribute for them next season.
Rams Coach Sean McVay likes to be aggressive, but going for it on fourth down and passing up the chance to tie was a bit too risky even for him.
Many Obamacare customers who just renew this year's plan will be passing up a better deal, and many scared of initial sticker shock may not realize there are cheaper options.
Most other times, this would be a strange sight — the mayor of the nation's largest city passing up a chance to pontificate and parry with the City Hall press corps.
"We'll evaluate it," Senator Richard C. Shelby, Republican of Alabama and the chairman of the Appropriations Committee, told reporters, passing up the opportunity to express any enthusiasm about the measure.
That record has fueled the perception that the court applies justice unequally — by some accounts, prejudicially — passing up cases involving major crimes to go after easier ones that single out Africans.
Considering the Giants' needs on the edge, passing up Montez Sweat, an edge rusher with top-73 talent, would almost have to mean they were scared away by his heart issues.
Belichick drew his share of criticism for passing up field-goal opportunities in the fourth quarter and instead letting Tom Brady and the offense go for it on fourth downs — and failing.
More than two decades after highlighting the irony of passing up good advice, the '90s superstar will fill the role of "agony aunt" for the Guardian Weekend magazine, the publication announced Friday.
Looks like R.J. Hampton made the right decision passing up college basketball to get a check in Australia ... 'cause he's already dominating pro basketball players, according to NBA skills trainer Tyler Relph.
He wouldn't earn any millennial cred for doing it that way, and he'd be passing up an opportunity to one-up Gillibrand, his fellow New Yorker, by appearing on James Corden's show.
And they rarely pitched Clinton with full fervor, passing up opportunities to sway the undecided and merely asking them to fill out a half-page "pledge cards" in which they commit to vote.
The hardcore fans who need to watch every game to keep track of their fantasy players will still pay top dollar, but the NFL is passing up extra cash from people like me.
Yet those dismissing Mr Trump as a simple hypocrite may be passing up a chance to learn something about a country that is heading into the next election in such a confounding state.
Those conditions have led some of his own most vocal supporters to suggest that Sanders, and the cause they credit him for elevating, might be best served by his passing up another run.
I don't know about you, but I'm probably OK with passing up on the opportunity to read a bunch of random stuff that separates me from some wacky new filters on my phone.
Quinton "Rampage" Jackson says he missed out on kicking ass with Hugh Jackman to kick ass in the cage ... passing up a role in "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" 'cause he had a fight.
The Times first reported on June 23 that Anthony was passing up the chance to terminate his contract and proceed directly to free agency to instead lock in next season's guaranteed $27.9 million salary.
The ruling sets up a delicate tactical question for the Supreme Court, which has never ruled a partisan gerrymander to be unconstitutional, passing up three separate opportunities to do so in its last term.
Or of sharpening a slight competitive edge in a society where the individual is increasingly made to feel that ceding any possible advantage or passing up any opportunity for profit is irresponsible, maybe immoral.
This follows the nunchi rule of never passing up a good opportunity to shut up; if you keep listening, the other party will tell you everything you need to know before you even ask.
In 2016, however, the government was criticized for passing up the opportunity to purchase the surrender letter of Padraig Pearse, leader of the 1916 Easter Rising, when it went up for auction in Dublin.
The "Reading Rainbow" host says the Talladega College Marching Band would be passing up a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity if it backed out amid all the backlash it's getting for taking the gig.
The pair slugged it out through one intense game after another and on to an equally tough tiebreak, which Nadal, also feeling the pressure, sealed despite passing up one set point with a double fault.
Politicians have been backed into a corner: offer up a hefty payout to at least get in the running for a company's jobs, or risk the appearance of passing up an opportunity for job growth.
That means potentially passing up some of the biggest ratings on TV. Fox News has gotten away with pushing back more, which says as much about its special place in Republican politics as its journalistic principles.
Long his addiction to passing up open layups in favor of an opportunity to dribble around some more and try to find an open teammate, Rubio is turning the ball over more than he ever has.
"Your first clients will lay the foundation of your business, message, and portfolio, so it's worth passing up less-than-ideal opportunities to wait for the ones that match your target," said Catalyst founder Sara Dahan.
As a freelance photographer, he made his living selling images to newspapers and magazines, but he took many of these photos before there was much of a market for them, passing up more lucrative subject matter.
In a pair of one-sentence orders, the court sent appeals in similar disputes back to lower courts, passing up opportunities to clarify its inconclusive rulings in some of the most closely watched cases this term.
Former London Mayor Boris Johnson and Justice Secretary Michael Gove, two of the most active proponents of leaving the E.U., surprised the world by passing up chances to run for the top slot in recent weeks.
When The Pittsburgh Courier's Randy Dixon wrote about the injustice of a segregated sport passing up a star in 1941 — "Exhibit A in So-Called Democracy, the Case of Jackie Robinson" — he didn't even mean baseball.
After years of railing against Obamacare and months of internal squabbling over what to replace it with, the GOP was not passing up a victory lap (even if it was really only at about the quarter pole).
The legend of Dak is one of humility, mostly, and it involves tales of passing up Kanye concerts and declining a late show appearance during the Cowboys' bye week so he could spend time with his grandmother.
In 2017, the billionaire investor admitted that passing up on Google years before, when the company was receiving $10 or $11 per advertising click from Berkshire Hathaway consumer insurance company subsidiary Geico, was a mistake, CNBC reports.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House is passing up a chance to steer policy on everything from mergers to advertising as it delays choosing from three front-runners to name a permanent chair for the Federal Trade Commission.
For the carb-conscious Our picks: Egg and cheese Wake-Up Wrap; green tea After passing up all of the doughnuts, bagels and Munchkins, a lower-carbohydrate meal at Dunkin' Donuts sounds harder to find than it is.
The NFL is not in the business of passing up chances to come up with new tough-sounding military-style acronyms, although the sport's institutional steakheadedness has ensured that nothing terribly interesting has been done with them yet.
After having lived through Trump's campaign discussing Clinton's emails ad nauseam, claiming the actions made her unfit to serve the country, you'd better believe Democrats aren't passing up the opportunity to call out Pence for his hypocritical actions.
By choosing her future father-in-law and first in line to the throne, some claimed, she was passing up the chance to make an important statement about feminism and stand up to the patriarchy of the monarchy.
In 1969, the family won a coin toss with Penny Chenery but chose to wait a year for a son or daughter of its Bold Ruler, passing up the chance to own Secretariat, the 1973 Triple Crown champion.
In the interview, he also voiced U.S. displeasure with the Palestinians, who rejected the plan announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday, accusing them of playing "the victimhood card" and passing up an opportunity for a state.
BŌTE Inflatable Fishing and Expedition Paddle Board, $1,500, available at AmazonMaybe there's not a lot of time for getting on the water these days, but with the Bōte board, there are no excuses for passing up an opportunity.
But even as we fret over passing up our thrice-weekly opportunity to drink vodka-seasoned ice water in the same poorly lit karaoke bar, it's often true that our nights spent at home bring us far more joy.
The best advice I could give any young person interested in a career in public service is not to take the bait, and to devote their time in college to studying, even if it means passing up career opportunities.
He told the audience that when he met Damon "I was the fat one," before complimenting the Good Will Hunting actor on passing up a role in Manchester By the Sea in favor of Casey Affleck taking the lead.
Yet this May, voters struck down, for the fourth time, a plan to sell bonds that would pay for a new building, passing up an opportunity to finance the new school at a cost that may never be so low again.
But we continue to believe the Fed will take a wait and see approach, passing up the June and July meeting, setting up the markets for a once and done September rate hike in the magnitude of 25 basis points.
Rarely passing up a chance to lay up when a bolder player might have gone for the green, he is a man of relatively few birdies for a player of his skill, even fewer bogeys and a plethora of pars.
Khloé Kardashian may be part of a hit reality TV series, a successful entrepreneur and a social media mogul but that doesn't stop her from passing up a good deal – especially when it comes to her beloved extra-large hoop earrings.
In a pair of one-sentence orders, the court instead sent appeals in similar disputes back to lower courts for further proceedings, passing up opportunities to clarify its inconclusive rulings in some of the most closely watched cases this term.
Jeff Link, a Democratic strategist here who has held focus groups of Obama-Trump voters, said his party was passing up a huge opportunity if it ignored the 2016,000 Iowans who cast ballots for Mr. Obama and then supported Mr. Trump.
Passing up the top player on the board couldn't have been easy, but a player like White who can truly run a defense made a lot of sense and gives Coach Bruce Arians an anchor on that side of the ball.
Every bone in my body told me not to apply — but every friend, family member and colleague (especially the ones who knew I was plotting an escape) said I would be passing up an opportunity to make my résumé look better.
The actor stopped by Conan where he jokingly told the story of passing up on Will Smith's role on 1996's Independence Day because he thought the script was bad — and how it turned out to be one of his biggest mistakes.
An unkempt man-child—the internet prefers "large adult son"—making a big stink about losing his free housing while passing up the whole work thing is perfect fodder for cable news, television, and Twitter, but relentlessly mocking him is punching down.
Waiters' jumpers stopped falling and Roberson regressed hard, missing all four of his threes and most everything else en route to finishing two for 11, to the point that he was passing up wide-open looks and drawing the ire of Durant.
Passing up a touchdown in that situation would have run counter to Prescott's instincts — "It's important to get in the end zone and put the pressure on them," he said — and Coach Jason Garrett said afterward that he agreed with Prescott's decision.
While receiving due credit for coming together in 85003 to pass the sweeping and complex 21st Century Cures Act, recent congresses are showing a penchant for passing up on the easy layup, opting instead for the proverbial "three-pointer" of large, high-profile legislation.
When you were asked in a postgame news conference how it felt to be linked to a vast federal investigation into recruiting improprieties in college basketball — especially after passing up all that N.B.A. money — your coach, Tom Izzo, did not allow you to answer.
In her most recent project, a book called "Brave, Not Perfect," Saujani spoke with hundreds of women across the United States and came to a stunning realization: In this quest for perfection, women are passing up opportunities that they think are too risky or too hard.
Major global oil firms last week snubbed a second Brazilian oil auction in a row, passing up offshore blocks and forcing officials to reconsider a bidding system that gives a privileged position to state-run Petroleo Brasileiro SA. (Reporting by Julia Symmes Cobb Editing by Marguerita Choy)
In addition, Goldie displayed a lot of loyalty to the UFC brand in the past, passing up on a big-money contract offer from WWE—an offer which was complimented by an additional six-figure sum for Goldberg to no-show a UFC commentary gig as reported in 2006.
Hudkins, who is always wearing a plaid shirt and has a mop of brown hair that shags in front of his glasses, deadpans constantly, and is seemingly incapable of passing up a chance to throw sarcasm, anti-humor, a dad joke, or, if possible, all three, into conversation.
By then, Eger will be a married mother of three, a public-school teacher turned therapist who had escaped to America after sneaking her imprisoned husband out of jail — "Yesterday's Nazis become today's Communists," he said, when passing up a government post — and leaving everything they owned behind.
When Andre Roberson passed up a wide-open look toward the end of the shot clock in the dying moments of the game, it was Waiters who took on the responsibility of passing up a catch-and-shoot corner three to take two dribbles inside the arc and brick a fadeaway.
On this same topic, Weiss noted that one of her favorite bits of recent feedback came via a user who tweeted that Glossier is the first beauty brand that this person is "passing up," including to mothers and older friends (versus an established brand that's been handed down to them).
As a lawmaker in the old GOP minority, he worked across the aisle, passing up a place in the tea party caucus after being elected in 2010 and instead entering the ranks of the more moderate Republican Main Street caucus, and he even cosponsored popular flood insurance legislation with Democratic Rep.
A Wednesday piece in The Washington Post credits Kelly for being an "apolitical force" in a sharply ideological White House: Passing up opportunities to craft policies, Kelly has acted as a neutral mediator— encouraging key players to argue their points, ensuring proposals are fully vetted and then presenting the options to the president.
But to take it a step further: If you were to steal the lobster in an attempt to take it home and cook your own personal Lobsterfest, you'd be passing up a perfectly good opportunity to down a basketful of Cheddar bay biscuits, which are the real stars of Red Lobster anyway.
Two information officers supplied a stream of printed and oral releases throughout the procedure, including a detailed schedule of examinations and records processing, as well as instant confirmation of Clay's acceptable blood test and the fact that he had obeyed Muslim dietary strictures by passing up the ham sandwich included in the inductees' box lunches.
"If there are people running for president who think it's more important to protect the two cents of the millionaires and billionaires, I'm ready to have that fight," Warren said after an event Saturday night in Chicago, passing up the chance -- as she would again in Iowa the next day -- to fire back directly at Buttigieg.
I think if you're [CEO] Gorman you can consolidate, I guess some people would say fire people, but it is incredible to see a franchise like E-Trade that people didn't think was worth that much after a second look, after Ameritrade was bought, and then why does Gorman come and do that even though people were passing up on it initially?
Watch enough episodes, and the segments begin to reveal a similar rhythm; seeing the pitch process repeated so many times in rapid succession, a viewer develops a sort of omniscience, that mixture of intimacy and superiority that is unique to reality TV. By Hour 2, I find myself thinking that Lori is crazy for not investing in a perfect QVC product or that Mark is a moron for passing up a product that could easily pair with his sports empire.

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