Brendan Behan Quotes
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Sorry, there's nothing like a screaming baby to make a mother twitch.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
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I don't feel that rap has been respected as an art form. Because people have seen rappers rap off the top of their heads, they don't think it is difficult.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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I think this is all my life. Because if I was split gymnastics and something else like far, fun or to go with friends. No, this, you're supposed to one go, one straight road and to do every day. And touch the wall, of the goal.
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Regardless of who you are, I believe that everybody in this country is entitled to justice.
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Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
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I got into film school. I went and didn't know anything about it. Over the course of two years, I kind of got kind of good at it. You know, I had a brief moment where I wasn't sure if I could do it. I didn't know you needed light to expose film.
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When I returned to the United States after three years of World War II service, my total assets consisted of one wife, one small daughter, $276 in the bank, and an idea. The idea was for an export business to supply items badly needed everywhere in Europe.
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I am frozen musically somewhere around 2004.
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In true prose everything must be underlined.
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I built my entire life on the idea of independence.
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If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
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I'm shy, but sometimes my voice is so clear and strong.
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I have so many fashion mistakes, but that's part of being in fashion. I think the people that you see make the most mistakes are usually the best dressers.
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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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Once upon a time, forests were repositories of magic for the human race.
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What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.
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We knew we were talking about spies. I knew he knew I knew. I was digging my own grave.
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Yes, so it is that knowledge itself must die in order to blossom forth again in death as will; the freedom of thought, belief, and conscience, these wonderful flowers of three centuries will sink back into the lap of mother earth so that a new freedom, the freedom will, will be nourished with its most noble juices.
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Little less so. “My”
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
