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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The ideal is to live forever, right? Or to live right now and just be grateful that I feel good. I'm definitely grateful for every second that I'm alive. At this point in my life, I definitely take time out throughout the day to just stop and be like, "Everything is cool." It's as good as it's gonna be, because it only gets worse.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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Just the idea that we, these little collections of atoms and molecules, are part of the world, but a part that can look at the rest of the world and figure it out in a self-referential way, is kind of breathtaking.
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Immigration was probably the driving thing behind Brexit.
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In Sierra Leone last year there was just the two of us hanging out of a helicopter and, when we were in Bosnia, I drove an armoured vehicle, thousands of miles.
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I am a daylight atheist.
