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The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a major coup for women to have an R-rated comedy that did really well. Same as 'Bad Teacher.'

~Chris Pratt

Topics: American American Audience Audience Bad Being Bridesmaids Comedy Coup Crude Did Funny Kinda Major Opened Really Same Teacher Think Up Well Women I Think

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A neoliberal disaster is one who generates a mass incarceration regime, who deregulates banks and markets, who promotes chaos of regime change in Libya, supports military coups in Honduras, undermines some of the magnificent efforts in Haiti of working people, and so forth.

~Cornel West

Topics: Banks Change Chaos Coup Disaster Efforts Forth Haiti Honduras Incarceration Libya Magnificent Markets Mass Military People Regime Some Supports Who Working Working People

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Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

~Eduardo Galeano

Topics: Against Coup Democracy Done Military Most Name Wars

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There is a frustration too, that at moments when there's not a coup, when there are not people in the streets, that the country disappears from people's consciousness.

~Edwidge Danticat

Topics: Consciousness Country Coup Disappears Frustration Moments People Streets Too

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Pinochet took power in a 1973 military coup that the United States supported.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Coup Military Power States Supported Took United United States

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Gadhafi's vicious regime has left Libya far worse than he found it on the day of his coup in 1969.

~Elliott Abrams

Topics: Coup Day Far Found He His Left Libya Regime Than Vicious Worse

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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.

~Fabrizio Moreira

Topics: Analyst Brexit Case Clear Coup Eyes Far Fed Fed Up Frustrated Independent Most Particularly People Quo Sign Status Status Quo Up Voters

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This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

~Fay Vincent

Topics: Bud Commissioner Coup Good Surprised

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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.

~Ferdinand Marcos

Topics: American American Government Coup Friends Government Trusted

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