Brendan Behan Quotes
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.
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Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation.
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I don't want my marriage or my guns registered in Washington. And if people have an opinion, it's a religious opinion that is heartly felt, obviously they should be allowed to practice that, and no government should interfere with them.
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There's been a number of erroneous biographies, articles and so on written about Billy and we both thought it would be a good idea to produce a true one.
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We live in a society that is powered by fossil fuels, but for the meantime, we're in it. Maybe there's, like, five people living in the woods off-grid, but they're spending all their time maintaining that, and they don't have much time left over for anything else.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
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If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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Often when you are starting out in comedy, you will find that people will laugh at the things you didn't think were funny. It's important to pay attention also to what people are laughing at when you are just talking in regular conversation. Often that is when you are truly being yourself.
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I think it's more important to be fit so that you can be healthy and enjoy activities than it is to have a good body.
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
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I started working with Timely in 1946. Stan Lee hired me.
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I'm actually a very shy person. You'd be surprised how many leaders are shy. They're not all extroverts by nature.
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The First Envoy to a world always comes alone. One alien is a curiosity, two are an invasion.
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You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen.. ..when you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.
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The human body as an obedient coolie, to be fed and hosed down, and given just enough sexual freedom to sedate itself.
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Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,I struck him, and dismiss'dWith hard words and unkiss'd,-His Mother, who was patient, being dead.
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Talented people are written off once they hit their 50s and 60s, and the saddest thing is, we just get better as we get older.
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I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.
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I just love singing, songwriting and touring.
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You don't paddle against the current, you paddle with it. And if you get good at it, you throw away the oars.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
