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'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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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 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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There's never a case of, 'Ooh, I touched a nerve there.' It's make believe.
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The government's job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
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I still get weepy when I see a father being nice to his child. It so affects me.
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Civilization is to groups what intelligence is to individuals. It is a means of combining the intelligence of many to achieve ongoing group adaptation.
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C++ is a horrible language. It's made more horrible by the fact that a lot of substandard programmers use it, to the point where it's much much easier to generate total and utter crap with it.
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Open the doors that lead on in to EdenDon't want no cheap disguise.I follow the signs marked back to the beginning,No more compromise.
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Somehow, while I wasn't looking, I fell. And I fell hard.
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Transatlantic links are very important.
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So the first step out of childhood is made all at once, without looking before or behind, without caution, and nothing held in reserve.
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With comics, you can only really learn what you're doing wrong or what works best when you see your work published. I've been publishing comics since my 20s, and still, when I flip through any of my new comics, I still only see the things that I wish I'd done better. But that's how you learn, by seeing it.
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Because . doesn't match \n. [\0-\377] is the most efficient way to match everything currently. Maybe \e should match everything. And \E would of course match nothing.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
