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Brendan Behan Quotes

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Judge Said Everything Out Pretty He

People hate me because I am a multifaceted, talented, wealthy, internationally famous genius.

Hate I Am People Me Famous Genius

A lot of people just think I'm a big man, but I'm a basketball player. I am able to do everything that a basketball player can do - from playmaking and scoring to just passing the ball and just being a leader and post presence.

Leader Man I Am People Basketball

I don't read my own press, so I don't know what's being reported on a daily basis - I only hear about things when they reach a sort of Def-Con status, and my publicist calls me because we have to do some damage control.

Daily Me Control Reach Know My Own

Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach.

Life Age Opportunity Football Me

We never used to blink at taking a leadership role in the world. And we understood leadership often required something other than drones and bombs. We accepted global leadership not just for humanitarian reasons, but also because it was in our own best interest. We knew we couldn't isolate ourselves from trouble. There was no place to hide.

Leadership Best World Hide Place

After Dodd-Frank, the big banks were bigger. The small banks are fewer.

Small Bigger Big Banks Were After

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

Girl New York Face I Can Street Run

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

John W. Gardner

Respect Government Feel Responsible

A good dancer is not necessarily defined by great technique, skill, or ability to pick up choreography but by confidence. When you feel the music, it penetrates to your soul. Everybody's a dancer. The greatest dancer is someone who is willing to dance, not afraid.

Good Confidence Music Great Dance

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

Education Support Want Humanities

The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it.

Mary Catherine Bateson

Death Ending Story Meaning Timing

Restrictions on mobility will be removed as cars become driverless. We'll be chauffeured, basically.

Will Become Mobility Restrictions

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