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

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Brendan Behan
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. How young can you die of old age?
  • 2. Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
  • 3. Time in general has always been a central obsession of mine – what it does to people how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally I am interested in old age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I think Polanski's an amazing director.
  • 2. My parents armed me with an amazing sense of humor and it's what you need when well it's what anyone needs in this world.
  • 3. They are amazing kids so we let them make decisions but also have discipline.

3 Anger

  • 1. You can survive with anger but you can't live with it forever.
  • 2. A wonderful emotion to get things moving when one is stuck is anger. It was anger more than anything else that had set me off roused me into productivity and creativity.
  • 3. Everybody kind of perceives me as being angry. It's not anger it's motivation.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. We can't forget what happened on May 4th 1970 when four students gave up their lives because they had the American constitutional right of peaceful protest. They gave up their lives. And to sing that song in that spot on that anniversary was very emotional for us.
  • 2. The 150th anniversary of Penn State will highlight what is important and good about this distinguished institution and the fine people and research that it produces.
  • 3. I've been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out she'll kill me.

5 Architecture

  • 1. There was an age however when the transition from savagery to civilization with all its impressive outward manifestations in art and architecture took place for the first time.
  • 2. The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.
  • 3. The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.
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