"It was actually for the strong-willed: 'Come sit through this, experience some of the duration, how it's boring and frustrating, and you repeat the same thing 20 times in a row, and nothing changes.' " And then something does.
Gorbachev, who arrived looking like a spy complete with KGB-issue hat and overcoat, responded by standing up to Reagan ("you are not a prosecutor and I am not the accused") and was visibly irritated "why do you repeat the same thing (on the SDI); stop this rubbish".
"When you're feeling reckless, you just repeat the things he says, whether it's true or not".
Of far more use is to repeat the thing you're trying to remember, and to form associations with it.
"There's the awareness that one can use the media, and I've learned how to tweet and do that sort of thing, so you repeat the various messages going on with all of the things that Unicef is involved with," he says.
"They repeat the thing with them like 20 times.
"You can bring a parrot on a first date, but don't expect him not to repeat the things you say about Mother".
It was confusing and would not listen to you and repeat the same thing", and that "it went very quick, did not give you any chances and would just bark something out at you".
"There's never a way that you could repeat the original thing; it just can't be done," said Joan Jonas, an important 1960s figure in conceptual and video art, in a 2010 interview.
At this point, many patterns will require that if there is a lining, you would repeat the same thing for the lining.
