Brendan Behan Quotes

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

Brendan Behan

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 9, 1923 - March 20, 1964

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I think being a writer is being heavily attuned to the absolute absurdity of things you take for granted, and I think that having actual parents who lived through the Cultural Revolution who are also interested in literature, they're also very attuned to those moments.

Jenny Zhang

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When we launched The Deck, I hoped other networks would take inspiration from it and figure out how to increase engagement while minimizing clutter. I even tried to sell my studio's media clients on the notion of fewer, better-priced, better-targeted ads.

Jeffrey Zeldman

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Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

Jenna Elfman

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I know a bit about taxation and the remarkable effort that goes in to avoiding it.

Robert Rinder

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The most important thing in the world is family and love.

John Wooden

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People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

Sparky Anderson

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It is therefore utterly false to say that Marx revokes the law of value as far as individual commodities are concerned, and maintains it in force solely for the aggregate of these commodities.

Rudolf Hilferding

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The average life expectancy of a celebrity is 20 years less than someone working in a coal mine.

Moby

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Hulu is about the shows, not the networks. The shows are the brands that users care about.

Jason Kilar

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I miss the silliness of the Nineties. What would society be like if 9/11 never happened? If that silliness was extended forever?

Douglas Coupland

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Coming from a country that's rapidly changing, I love the idea of a place like South Dakota where nothing has really changed.

Chloe Zhao

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Samoa Joe is great at kickboxing; he's super aggressive - he's tough.

Bobby Lashley

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