#ups

In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#coup #coups #essentially #military #opened

These are the multinationals, like General Motors and Nestle; these are the big industrial groups that weigh, on the monetary scale, much more than big countries like Egypt. ↗

— Ahmed Ben Bella

#countries #egypt #general #general motors #groups

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#best #boxing #down #everyone #floor

I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#dips #got #home #i #push-ups

Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats. ↗

— Bart Stupak

#democrats #fund #groups #us #won

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

If we'd have said we were not upset, they would have thought we were so rich it meant nothing to us, and if we say we're upset about it, they'll say money is all we care about. ↗

— John Bonham

#care #meant #money #nothing #rich

I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream. ↗

— John Breaux

#also #coast #constructed #contributed #downstream

Being close but feeling far, talking but not being heard, loving but not being loved, that is the painful reality of a dying relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#love #relationships #experience

Punk rock really came out of N.Y. as a philosophy before the groups were ever recorded. I had a kind-of intellectual interest in the idea of creating a new scene that could be a grassroots thing. ↗

— Greg Ginn

#came #could #creating #ever #grassroots