Enda Kenny Quotes
I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
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I didn't have a long-term plan or goal. If there would have been a road map showing me the way to my dreams becoming reality, I might have given it a second thought.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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Life is too short to blend in.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Usually I trundle about in trainers and baggy jeans, looking about as attractive as a potato.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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Never judge a person if you don't know him.
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If you grew up in my generation, you're going to be influenced by Run DMC, the Beastie Boys and also listen to Metallica - it wasn't segregated anymore.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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As long as you understand that you find happiness through family, friends and love, then money is just a nice bonus.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Thoughts are mental energy; they're the currency that you have to attract what you desire. Learn to stop spending that currency on thoughts you don't want.
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My name is Natasha Trethewey, and I was born in Gulfport, Mississippi, in 1966, exactly 100 years to the day that Mississippi celebrated the first Confederate Memorial Day, April 26, 1866.
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Back when I was growing up, it was like, 'You're too young to know what you want. We're telling you what you want. It doesn't matter if you like it. And you are stupid. Just so you know.'
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I have known healthy, wealthy people who were depressed, and people with critical illnesses who could honestly attest to joy.
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I really do love pop. I understand songwriting, I understand the business, and I'm not stuck in any one particular time period.
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Notice that the whole story of Eden is the story of the struggle over a woman's relationship to a psychoactive plant.
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If two billion people wanted to watch a robot fly by Pluto, imagine what it will be like when the first humans step on Mars. It'll be the most unifying event anybody could ever put on.
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As much as innovation is important, I think we also need to just make stuff. If we look at Kenya, where I'm from, as an example, we are importing everything down to toothpicks.
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I don't like to see people on trolleys in hospitals; I don't like to see old people sitting in chairs for hours.
