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Problems are not the problem; coping is the problem.
- Virginia Satir

Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.
- Malcolm Bradbury

I choose not to think of my life as surviving,
but coping.
- Lorna Luft

Think first of the action that is right to take,
think later about coping with one's fears.
- Barbara Deming

Parents learn a lot from their children about coping with life.
- Muriel Spark

Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.
- Chuck Palahniuk

Coping with the demands of everyday life would be exceedingly
trying if one could arrive at solutions to problems
only by actually performing possible options and suffering the consequences.
- Albert Bandura

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In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct
attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war,
to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war,
and to methods for coping with the consequences should
war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
- Herman Kahn

The Onion Field made a real writer.
And then I knew it was over, I couldn't be a cop anymore.
- Joseph Wambaugh

We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three
miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.
- Johnny Thunders

People always say that you can't please everybody.
I think that's a cop-out.
Why not attempt it? 'Cause think of all the people
you will please if you try.
- Kanye West

I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point.
- Aaron Eckhart

The Onion Field, that one got pretty close to me because
I was a cop when it happened.
I saw some of the indifference that my police department
showed to the surviving officer.
- Joseph Wambaugh

The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told
me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City.
So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
- Ice T

As a former cop, I respect and appreciate those who've
dedicated their lives to serving others as well as
those who appreciate the rule of law and honor it.
- Dave Reichert

As a cop, I dealt with every kind of bum and criminal.
They all have more integrity than some Hollywood people.
- Joseph Wambaugh

No, the seventies was a totally different sensibility
and that allowed us to break new ground as a cop show.
- Paul M. Glaser

I don't know if I am cut out to playing a bad character or not -
I really should give it a shot.
I would like to play the voice of a baddie,
but that's really just a cop-out!
- Lindsay Lohan

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand.
Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A.
cop that guns him down.
- Edward Abbey

My grandfather was a cop in Long Island.
I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.
- Yancy Butler

A recent police study found that you're much more likely
to get shot by a fat cop if you run.
- Dennis Miller

Look at the number of cop shows and lawyer shows and forensics shows...
I think there could be room for two quite different
examinations of the same political office.
- Geena Davis

I'm sure I took some licks at the system,
and at trials and lawyers in general.
I've seen enough of them for so many years both as
a cop and a defendant in defamation cases.
- Joseph Wambaugh

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.
- Dudley Moore

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

So, through playing with Cop I realized that there
is a potentially interested audience out in the world.
- Jim Coleman

If your neighbors think you're a detective because
a cop always brings you home,
you might be a redneck.
- Jeff Foxworthy

I've always thought live albums were cop-outs.
- David Coverdale

I'm an L.A.
girl who became a tough New York cop.
- Mariska Hargitay

I've never been a cop nor hope to be a cop,
thanks.
- Evan Hunter

In the beginning Remo is a very New York street cop
who changes and is changed as he moves along.
- Fred Ward

If you haven't seen your wife smile at a traffic cop,
you haven't seen her smile her prettiest.
- Kin Hubbard

Dirty Harry, for example.
Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop.
He was a maverick cop, but he was a good guy.
- Charlton Heston

Now I know why guys like to hug girls.
You guys just want to cop a feel.
I can't believe that I've fallen for it all these years!
- Sherilyn Fenn

I know there were many good policemen who died doing their duty.
Some of the cops were even friends of ours.
But a cop can go both ways.
- Martin Scorsese

I think that one of the strengths of Cop Shoot Cop lay in the different,
and at times, clashing personalities,
Ideally, I want to have both ways of working in my life.
- Jim Coleman

Never quit.
It is the easiest cop-out in the world.
Set a goal and don't quit until you attain it.
When you do attain it, set another goal,
and don't quit until you reach it.
Never quit.
- Bear Bryant

I always thought that the badge a cop has was more
like the shield that Captain America has.
It's an obvious sign of good and something you'll protect other people with,
but it will also protect you.
- Judd Nelson

In France they spend six months training policemen,
then they give them a gun and put them on the streets,
and I don't know that that's enough.
The film's not against the police - although I think
that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem.
- Mathieu Kassovitz

The Violence Against Women Act is so important.
It provides money to train the cop on the beat,
to train the judges that this is a new day,
that we won't tolerate this violence and to know how to deal with it.
- Patricia Ireland

I'd never played a cop before, and this particular
role with what she is going thru,
especially during the first season, covering her alcoholism
to her on the job performance,
was a great opportunity for me as an actress.
- Nancy McKeon

It was a department where you had honesty and integrity
stamped right on you when you came into the Los Angeles Police Department.
If you violated that, or if you were a dishonest cop,
you were terrible.
We got rid of you as quickly as possible.
- Daryl Gates

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted
to do a series for the last 10 years.
But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing
bad guys up against the wall.
- William Petersen

I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.'
'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did,
that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick.
And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time.
- John Leguizamo

First, I'm trying to edit down about 7 hours of material
which I made prior to the Cop days and find some way to get it out.
This stuff is pretty out there, mostly sonic collages and tape manipulations.
- Jim Coleman

People want a cop-out, listen I'm a realist and I talk about motivation,
talk about all the things it takes to be greater or
are important to win and people want to use excuses all the time.
- Mike Ditka

When I first started the show, I was known as the 'cop nerd.'
I was in the 9th Precinct in the East Village every day.
I'd be at work wearing a fake bulletproof vest with foam in it,
then I'd leave and put on a real one to ride around with these guys.
- Jason Wiles

Star Trek wouldn't die.
There were a whole lot of young people who were touched
by the thought process of science fiction.
If you watched a cop show, there wasn't anything that
was going to stimulate your mind.
- Gary Lockwood

People don't know where to place me.
Terry Gilliam used me as a quirky cop in 'Twelve Monkeys',
and then he hired me again to be an effeminate hotel
clerk in 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.
Another time, I was shooting this indie film 'The Souler
Opposite' and six days a week,
I'm playing this big puppy dog, then I come to the
'NYPD Blue' set and become this scumbag.
- Christopher Meloni

Understanding does not cure evil,
but it is a definite help,
inasmuch as one can cope
with a comprehensible darkness.
- Carl Jung

The most effective way to cope with change
is to help create it.
- L. W. Lynett

Humor can alter any situation and help us cope at the
very instant we are laughing.
- Allen Klein

There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)

Individual effort is almost relatively impossible to
cope with the big problem of poverty as we see it.
- John Burns

English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time,
so it will be interesting to see how managers cope
with the squads they have until it re-opens.
- David Ginola

We can't be as good as we'd want to,
so the question then becomes,
how do we cope with our own badness?
- Nick Hornby

Each individual is unique.
We all have equal worth.
Young and old, those who can cope and those who need help.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik

Perhaps naively I thought people understand what humor was,
that it was invented by the human race to cope with the dark areas of life,
problems and terrors.
- Bill Forsyth

One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in
laying out a new project,
you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
- Sargent Shriver

Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Robin Williams

In my opinion the greatest advantage we can at present expect from our Navy;
for at this early period We can not expect to have
a Navy to cope with the British.
- William Whipple

Aerial flight is one of that class of problems with
which men will never have to cope.
- Simon Newcomb

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death.
You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother;
how can young people deal with such tragedies?
- Andrew Shue

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something
more difficult to cope with,
but it is not impossible.
- Bhumibol Adulyadej

I can cope with a smack in the face,
or at least I should be able to after the number I have had.
This one was just run-of-the-mill for me.
- Richard Gough

And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER,
in that it's very much about the medicine,
and how these people cope.
There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
- Laura Innes

Humor can help you cope with the unbearable so that
you can stay on the bright side of things until the
bright side actually comes along.
- Allen Klein

Life is not what it's supposed to be.
It's what it is.
The way you cope with it is what makes the difference.
- Virginia Satir

I think being an actress is more how to cope with the
fact that you can't do anything else than to express a talent.
It's a way of being untalented for anything.
- Isabelle Huppert

One of the effects of living with electric information
is that we live habitually in a state of information overload.
There's always more than you can cope with.
- Marshall McLuhan

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was
able to rediscover the past.
- Gene Tierney

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