Brendan Behan Quotes
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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I have to wear two sports bras when I do my cardio. It takes a lot to hold these puppies up!
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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By now it is evident that the Soviet Union must gain control of Europe to maintain its empire.
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I don't say: 'can't do that', 'won't do that'. I've never thought in that way about work.
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The days of the painter at the Bauhaus appear to be truly over. They are estranged from the actual core of present activities, and their influence is more restricting than inspiring.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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I do just genuinely believe Chris Hemsworth is a 6'3, more muscular version of me. And more handsome, but I try.
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There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.
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The news team, and Hamin, seemed well pleased. 'You should have been an actor, Jernau Gurgeh,' Hamin told him. Gurgeh assumed this was intended as a compliment.
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
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I went to UCLA, my dad's alma mater, and that was his dream.
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I have cervical cancer. I'm what they call a DES baby... I have been cancer free for 7 years now... I had it the first time when I was 19 and then it came back a few years later after I went through treatment.
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Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
