Quotes about coup
couple thinking degrees
If you think that the brass is not blowing loud enough, mute it by a couple of degrees. Richard Strauss
couple years tv-shows
When I was younger, I did a TV show in the U.K. for a couple years, and I learned a lot from that. It taught me a lot about being known amongst your peers and having to deal with a lot of derision from them. Richard Madden
couple reading people
I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another. Richard Matheson
couple impact long
When I meet a couple, I'm always interested to know if they have been together for a long time, or how loyal they are, because I know that will impact on how much I'm prepared to trust them. Richard E. Grant
couple commitment cutting
I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases. Tim Yeo
couple rap school
The poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits ever since 1994. You would never learn that from most of the media. Similarly you look at those blacks that have gone on to college or finished college, the incarceration rate is some tiny fraction of what it is among those blacks who have dropped out of high school. So it’s not being black; it’s a way of life. Unfortunately, the way of life is being celebrated not only in rap music, but among the intelligentsia, is a way of life that leads to a lot of very big problems for most people. Thomas Sowell
couple men names
Most people who read "The Communist Manifesto" probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of "the workers". Thomas Sowell . Thomas Sowell
couple
This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department? Thomas Roberts
couple vacation shoes
There is no place so benighted and godforsaken that some moron won't go there on vacation. People could be living in an open sewer and swallowing dirt to stop the hunger, and there'd be a couple from Larchmont wearing comfortable shoes there to take pictures of them. Thomas Perry
couple race trying
There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all. Robert Griffin III
couple book fighting
As a writer you know you don't have to deal with a lot of the crap that most people deal with, the political things. Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and that's it. Robert Greene
couple lucky fifteen
Movie theaters barely make any money. A movie can make a couple of thousand dollars, or could get lucky and make ten or fifteen thousand dollars, but theatrical releases don't really sustain the work. For me, it's the best sort of advertisement for anything else you'd want to do. Robert Greene
couple reading two
Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors Robert Asprin
couple mean people
Mostly people are interested in how somebody becomes an actor. And then, if they've had a couple of drinks, they want to know what Demi Moore's like or whatever. I mean, I don't mind people asking that at all, but when you've answered it five times... Rob Lowe
couple bitterness looks
I don't look back with any bitterness, though there are a couple of judgment calls and some '80s hairdos that I'd like to do over. Rob Lowe
couple years oil
I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years. Richard Linklater
couple letters monogamy
Monogamy, monotony. There's only a couple of letters... Richard Linklater
couple ideas way
Neal had a couple of good ideas and they fit nicely, so that's the way I decided to go. Raymond E. Feist
couple dancer watches
Listen - I like musicals. Even when they're bad, there's a couple of dancers I can watch. Richard Schiff
couple reading tired
A couple years ago, the novelist Russell Banks told me he was reading the ancient Greek historian Herodotus. I asked why. He said, 'Because I've always wanted to and am tired of having my reading assigned.' I thought it was a marvelous declaration of independence. Richard Russo
couple classic obsession
The ruins of classic movie theaters are a personal obsession of mine, and I've made a couple of documentaries about it. Sonia Braga
couple thinking people
I'm not going to shoot seven days a week. I think it's counterproductive. I think you're going to have people stumbling around after a couple of weeks. Roger Corman
couple nice team
He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee. Roger Clemens
couple father fall
After the falling out with my father, I worked on a couple of ranches - thoroughbred layup farms, actually - out toward Chino, California. That was fine for a little while, but I wanted to get out completely, and twenty miles away wasnt far enough. Sam Shepard
couple writing next-week
Somebody talked me into writing an autobiography about six or seven years ago. And I said I'd try. We talked into a tape recorder, and after a couple of months, I said, To hell with it. I was so depressed. It was like saying, 'This is the end.' I was more interested in what the hell was coming the next day or the next week. Rupert Murdoch
couple worry election
Let me tell you the polls that count, and those are the polls a couple of weeks before the election. That's when the pollsters worry about holding onto their credibility. Those are the polls that everybody remembers. Rush Limbaugh
couple mean house
I mean, we've had Republican majorities in the House and even the Senate for a couple of years. How has that worked out, stopping [Barack] Obama, hmm? Seriously. Rush Limbaugh
couple sunday iran
Obama has been saying for years now - he said it again on Sunday - that climate change is the biggest threat facing the planet, all the while he knew that Iran is just a couple months away from a nuclear bomb. Rush Limbaugh
couple children three
In 1860, sixty-three per cent of the couples married in Great Britain had families of four or more children; in 1925 only twenty per cent had more than four. Thomas Malthus
couple mean years
When he finished up with the Twins and even after he was done, he was always down on the field, so I had a chance to talk to him every time we came into town. Even my first couple of years - when I was still wet behind the ears - he was more than willing to come over and say, 'Hi.' Obviously, he didn't have to introduce himself, but he spent a little time and asked me how I was doing. And it always meant a lot. Anytime you have somebody of that stature on and off the field to take time and be willing to come talk to you, it means a lot. Tony Clark
couple order presidential
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. Tony Campolo
couple rights church
I contend the state ought to do its thing and provide legal rights for all couples who want to be joined together for life. The church should bless unions that it sees fit to bless, and they should be called marriages. Tony Campolo
couple drug trying
But you know what I'm trying to say, it's that there's a couple of really dangerous drugs out there and I've lost some friends to them. Tommy Lee