Enda Kenny Quotes
Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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My mother and my grandmother are pioneers of Mexican cuisine in this country, so I grew up in the kitchen. My mom, Zarela Martinez, was by far my biggest influence and inspiration - and toughest critic.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I was a good bartender. I wouldn't say I was the best bartender in New York, but I could hold my own.
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I got so pissed I took a little poll to see if anyone was sick of gettin' taxed as much as I am. I called 100 people one night and here's the results: everyone I polled said, 'You dumb ass, it's three o'clock in the morning!' (p. 131).
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People love stories. They need stories.
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The IWW Industrial Workers of the World has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.
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I don't necessarily want my physician making all my decisions.
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I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast.
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
