Brendan Behan Quotes
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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If you don't meet the standards, then you don't qualify.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Whenever I go on the red carpet and I'm a bit nervous, I just say to myself the mantra, 'Come on Barbara, you gotta get those pictures posted on Instagram!' That's all I have in my mind, like, 'Look serious now, maybe give a little smile, but a cheeky one,' but in the end, it's never how it looks.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I've always been a Nike person.
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I don't expect anybody to know who I am.
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To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
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Radio listeners often have a very fertile imagination when it comes to body shape.
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I don't love the world. I think Jupiter should have hit us.
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If we truly want to achieve lasting economic growth, we need our businesses to do more business - and we need them to do it in America.
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Hemingway always used to bawl me out for including so much topical stuff. He always claimed that was a great mistake, that in fifty years nobody would understand. He may have been right; it's getting to be true.
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Without an anti-environment, all environments are invisible. (p. 33)
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Being passed up by teams because of my size made me hungry. I've seen a lot of first-round guys who come in and never really do nothing because they may not appreciate the opportunity because everything has been given to them. I think guys who come from the bottom understand how hard it is, so they appreciate the opportunities more.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
