Brendan Behan Quotes
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I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.
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I pick up the details that drive the organization insane. But sweating the details is more important than anything else.
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Whether it's just walking down the street to try to go to a movie, go to dinner, something like that, there are always a few people that recognize you.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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Switching from one career to another can be scary, but it also can be a thrilling experience. Look at it as an opportunity to really go after what you want to accomplish in life and make a difference in the world. The key is to take small, conscious steps and prepare yourself for a successful transition.
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When I was performing on streets, there was no pressure. People accepted me. They loved me without knowing me.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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I've always loved fashion, but it's not what I set out to do.
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In the beginning, before the creation of Heaven and Earth, God made the angels; free intelligences and free wills; out of His love He made them, that they might be eternally happy. And that their happiness might be complete, He gave them the perfection of a created nature; that is, He gave them freedom.
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Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
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Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.
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Anywhere in the world is a great gig if the people are pumped to hear some music.
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I don't have any regrets. I wouldn't change a thing. You learn as you go.
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I don't like artists who are actors. I like artists, but I don't believe in that.
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In the past, I've allowed myself to record songs that I wish I had not, but agreed to for one reason or another.
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I accept any challenge.
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I have become a fatalist in life, so I don't try to set goals.
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Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.
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Each time we consider a miracle impossible, or assume that we ourselves are not capable of working it, then we're choosing not to take flight...
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I do not believe in God. I'm an atheist. I consider myself a critical thinker, and it fascinates me that in the 21st century most people still believe in, as George Carlin puts it, 'the invisible man living in the sky'
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I actually had to leave the country for infractions to fall off my record.
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I am a daylight atheist.
