Brendan Behan Quotes
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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We take so many of our freedoms for granted nowadays - I can travel where I like, I can have a baby when I like, I can do any job I want - but I do think chivalry has been lost a little bit.
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I really like boats. If you want to go somewhere, you just take your house with you.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
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I never wanted to be that person who leaves 'SNL' and nothing happens.
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I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a new millennium. There is a special place in my heart for that film and Melanie. She was a remarkable character - a loving person - and because of that, she was a happy person. And Scarlett, of course, was not.
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They said they wanted a lot of feathers, glitter, colourful colours. A costume. So I had a lady here in Calgary make it. She just kind of put together what I had in mind.
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Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.
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People always ask why I stay in the online space versus going to TV or film, like most people would do, and the answer is that there's opportunity for innovation online - not only innovation in storytelling, but also innovation in how you interact with your audience and that is very fulfilling to me personally.
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Winning is obviously the biggest thing. Because if you don't win, nothing really matters. You can have all the money in the world, and they can still call you a loser.
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At my core, what I think we need to do is to get the basics right again. We need to rebuild our family structure, stay away from redefining marriage, and stand by marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
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The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
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When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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People are drawn to preaching that is passionate and offered with conviction. Passion comes when the preacher has spent significant time with the text, and when God has spoken through the text in a way that addresses the preacher's life first.
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The thing that I do best is 'Be Here. Be Now'.
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More power to Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty if they can get someone’s attention.
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If you start a new career at 40, you've still got another 35 years to go.
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Teamwork is better than isolation, especially for a columnist.
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Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.
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Dancing and music were my first love. I was happiest at being a chorus boy.
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There are two things that you need to save for. First, you need an emergency cushion of no fewer than six months of living expenses. This needs to be cash in a liquid account where you can get at it in - yes - an emergency if you need it. In other words, money markets, not CDs. You also need to save for your future: that means retirement.
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
