Brendan Behan Quotes

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

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• MTV in general is involved with so many artists - musicians, actors, people in the fashion industry, and art world.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Men
  • Know
  • Understand

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Knowing

• I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.

  

  Cam
  • Home
  • Car
  • Tough

• From my experience in working with bureaucrats and politicians, if you are a credible business group, they will definitely help you. At the end of the day, they, too, want development of their constituency, state or country.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Country
  • Business
  • Experience

• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Action
  • Ethical
  • Pragmatic

• A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Good
  • You
  • Conversation

• The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Book
  • Words
  • Nothing

• I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Different
  • Play
  • Ready

• And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.

  

  Samantha Smith
  • War
  • Want
  • Said

• I was opposed to the government mandating that restaurants not allow people to smoke, believing it becomes the customer's choice whether they go in or not. But then, I thought, 'What about the employees? Aren't they hostage to a smoking environment, even if they don't smoke?'

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Government
  • Environment

• You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.

  

  Eddie Money
  • You
  • Look
  • Same

• I love going to the cinema and thinking you're seeing something, and you end up on a whole other planet, and you can't believe it.

  

  Garth Davis
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Planet

• I guess now music is so saturated and so microwaved. It's, like, 15 minutes in the microwave and boom, you've got something. Nobody's putting passion or any thought behind it anymore.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Thought

• Always stay true to who you are - barriers can and will be broken!

  

  Halima Aden
  • True
  • Always
  • Broken

• I have come to salvage Elphin's honor and his freedom. Taliesin am I, primary chief bard to Elphin.Primary chief poet Am I to Elphin. And my native country Is the place of the Summer Stars. John the Divine Called me Merlin, But all future kings Shall call me Taliesin.

  

  Taliesin
  • Country
  • Future
  • Freedom

• Rents once sais, thirs nothin like a darker skin tone tae increase the vigilance ay the police n the magistrates: too right.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Police

• I'm a firm believer that language and how we use language determines how we act, and how we act then determines our lives and other people's lives.

  

  Ntozake Shange
  • Language
  • Lives
  • Determines

• 'Life's That Way' was an extraordinarily difficult book to write, because it wasn't written as a book. It was written as a journal of events that were happening as I wrote it, without the space or time either to digest or analyze those events and without the hindsight and peace that writing in the aftermath would have provided.

  

  Jim Beaver
  • Life
  • Time
  • Writing

• Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Understood
  • Nonviolence
  • Active Force

• I did a movie called 'Clueless' when I was first starting out. And with that paycheck, I went and bought a car, which I had no use for, because I lived in New York City, where you can take a train for a dollar anywhere. But instead, I bought a $20,000 car with a $12,000 check.

  

  Donald Faison
  • Movie
  • City
  • Car

• Realistically, it's going to be very, very hard to extend existing tax cuts under current circumstances...

  

  Bruce Bartlett
  • Circumstances
  • Tax cuts

• He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

  

  Brendan Behan