Brendan Behan Quotes
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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I've met every freak in the business.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Stock photos are used everywhere on the Net. Chances are, the website you are on right now uses stock photos somewhere - maybe as the featured image of the blog post. This also means that there will always be a large market for stock photographers.
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The first week Banks was with us, we knew he was going to be a star.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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When I'm in a tricky situation I often think: 'What would Beyonce do?' It helps.
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You can go to work and actually make someone else's job less miserable. Use your job to help others.
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I never expected any sort of success with 'Mockingbird'... I sort of hoped someone would like it enough to give me encouragement.
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The world is a complex place, and the influence of the media in its representation and its power of communication and interpretation is a remarkable amplifier of emotions, and of illusions.
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Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind.
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Music was kind of a precious commodity growing up.
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I am very fortunate to have a career. I always have to act. I don't know if I'll have a career to support it for the rest of my life, but I know I'll always act.
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No man can discover his own talents.
