Brendan Behan Quotes
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Americans should be wary of the Muslim Brothers in Egypt but not scared of them.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'
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There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.
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While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?
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You look at a surgeon as you would a secular priest, almost, if it's your child, if it's your sister on the operating table. That was an idea that very much has interested me and I've wanted to explore for some time.
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He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.
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Popular music formed the soundtrack of my life.
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The fact that I'm shouting that I have Gangnam style makes people crack up. Imagine if Brad Pitt was singing the song - would it be funny? A twist is important when it comes to writing lyrics.
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We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
