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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It was not my dream to be an artist. How could it have been? I thought, artist, much like a leader, was something you either were or weren't. Never something you set out to be.
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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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And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.
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I want to inspire people.
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My work shows the beauty in so many different kinds of people because I never photograph anyone who I don't think is beautiful. I never take an intentionally mean picture.
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To do a band properly does kind of mean you don't really get to do anything else.
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The expectation of my life was that I might be able to work for some good white folks. Now I got some good white folks working for me.
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Irish people are pragmatic. They understand that nobody is going to fix our problems but ourselves.
