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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. Old minds are like old horses you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.
  • 2. To be free in an age like ours one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
  • 3. A tart temper never mellows with age and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Training in taekwondo for eight years and then being able to do it in a film was pretty amazing.
  • 2. The New York Quarterly is an amazing intelligent crazy creative strange and indispensable magazine.
  • 3. I'm proud of the U.S.A. We've done some amazing things. To wear our flag in the Olympics is an honor.

3 Anger

  • 1. Anger becomes limiting restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there look at that too. But after a while you have to look at something else.
  • 2. Although you may spend your life killing You will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger your real enemy will be slain.
  • 3. I'm an angry person angrier than most people would imagine I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Under this window in stormy weather I marry this man and woman together Let none but Him who rules the thunder Put this man and woman asunder.
  • 2. The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band but now they are really another band so it's all a bit weird.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.
  • 2. But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard which didn't last very long.
  • 3. Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities to make good building art.
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