#cop

The young always have the same problem - how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. ↗

— Quentin Crisp

#another #conform #copying #defying #how

I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them. ↗

— Ice Cube

#bad #cop #cops #definitely #i

When you have to cope with a lot of problems, you're either going to sink or you're going to swim. ↗

— Tom Cruise

#either #going #lot #problems #sink

Now that I have kids, I'm probably more overprotective than I've ever been. My wife's nickname for me is 'red alert.' I sometimes check just to see if the kids are breathing. But I try not to be a helicopter parent. ↗

— Matt Damon

#been #breathing #check #ever #helicopter

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#belief #cop-out #evade #evaluate #even

The only thing I really recommend, if you're starting out in stand-up is to not try to copy anybody else. You can be influenced by people. I was influenced by Steve Martin and Bob Newhart and Woody Allen, but I never tried to be someone else. I always tried to be myself. And the reason people are successful is they're unique. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#always #anybody #bob #copy #else

G.I. humor is similar to cop humor. ↗

— Nelson DeMille

#humor #i #similar

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory. ↗

— Edgar Degas

#collaborates #copy #draw #far #imagination

I was raised an Episcopalian. And I did not and I don't believe that anyone is looking out for me personally. ↗

— Joan Didion

#believe #did #episcopalian #i #i was raised

In the domain of cops and robbers, an interdiction serves to structure a black market and a shadow economy. ↗

— William Irwin Thompson

#cops #domain #economy #market #robbers