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 think on a whole host of issues Washington tends to be a lagging indicator on public opinion.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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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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Dear disgruntled artists: the key to success isn't kicking down the door; it's building your own.
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In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
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A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.
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We read that Adam and Methuselah lived so many centuries; at that time, it was the custom to marry in the family - marry as closely as possible - so that the tie of blood might be as strong as it could be made.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
