Brendan Behan Quotes
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
Quotes to Explore
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It's when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that's the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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Perfectionists are their own devils.
Jack Kirby
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You will seek not a near but a distant objective, and you will not be satisfied with what you may have done.
A. Lawrence Lowell
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
Nancy Pearcey
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Everyone loves each other for the pilot. But once you start to do the show, you see everybody's true colors. If it's successful, people start to change, and then if it's not doing well, people start to change in other ways.
Vanessa Marano
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The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.
Sam Mendes
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Fear comes, and once you recognize it and accept it, it passes just as fast as it comes, and you don’t really think about it anymore. You just do what you have to do, but you learn the real meaning of fear and life and death.
Hal Moore
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I must plead guilty as any of escaping into immediate busywork to keep from the far harder task of peering into a dim future, which, of course, should be one of a diplomat's main duties.
Dean Acheson
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It's important, when you see darkness, to understand that there's light ahead of that, and I'm the living testimony of that, you dig?
Wyclef Jean
Fugees
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They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
Ben Schwalb
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When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
