Enda Kenny Quotes

I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

Enda Kenny

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• I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Funny

• I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.

  

  Sadie Jones
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Trying

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• Nowhere in the Bible did anyone bring back anyone's past sins and throw them in their face.

  

  Vance McAllister
  • Past
  • Bible
  • Face

• To create a nice relationship with an ex, the love has to change form. I think you just have to put your children first.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Children
  • Walking

• Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Life
  • Question
  • End

• So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Opportunity
  • Small
  • Beginning

• I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Art
  • Best
  • Addiction

• I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Car
  • Golf
  • Speed

• We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• Earlier, my priority was only work. I worked like a dog before I got married. After marriage, once you have a baby, time management is difficult. Your responsibilities change, your priorities change. And you have to concentrate on them if you have to work out your life. Your career is just a part of your life. For me, my family is my life.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes.

  

  Oliver Sacks
  • Think
  • Night
  • Fall

• I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

  

  Mac Thornberry
  • Today
  • Change
  • Serious

• Affirmative action is a little like the professional football draft. The NFL awards its No. 1 draft choices to the lowest-ranked team in the league. It doesn't do this out of compassion or guilt. It's done for mutual survival. They understand that a league can only be as strong as its weakest team.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Strong
  • Team

• I'm really fascinated by lingos and colloquialisms that are outmoded and have gone by the wayside. I love the way people spoke in the '30s, and the amazing slang of the mid-'60s and '70s.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Really
  • Fascinated

• You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Talent
  • Determination

• All will be redeemed in God's fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Time
  • God
  • Small

• In 1978 I decided not to work with Man Ray as an act of self-discipline. I didn't want to rely on him. Man Ray hated not working, though. He would come into my studio, see me drawing or working on photographs, and just slump down at my feet with a big sigh. Fortunately for both of us the year ended. Polaroid had invented a new camera, the twenty-by-twenty-four, and I was invited to Cambridge, Mass., to experiment with it. Naturally, I took Man Ray and we were working again.

  

  William Wegman
  • Discipline
  • Drawing
  • Photograph

• I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Writing
  • Live
  • Dream

• There is artistic beauty to the way biology functions, nature functions, and science functions. I am trying to bring that kind of understanding in the design space.

  

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
  • Trying
  • Nature
  • Science

• You're trying too hard to find a correlation here. You don't know these people, you don't know what they intended. You try to compile statistics and correlate them to a result that amounts to nothing more than speculation.

  

  Marc Racicot
  • People
  • Trying

• I think 'austerity' is a much abused word. I prefer to call it 'fiscal discipline' or financial, 'financial competency.'

  

  Enda Kenny
  • Financial
  • Discipline