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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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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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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I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.
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My room is dominated by the huge painting, which is a copy of 'The Violation' by the Belgian surrealist Paul Delvaux. The original was destroyed during the Blitz in 1940, and I commissioned an artist I know, Brigid Marlin, to make a copy from a photograph. I never stop looking at this painting and its mysterious and beautiful women.
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I took my mother-in-law to Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, and one of the attendants said: 'Keep her moving sir; we're stock-taking.'
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The voice of the Constitution is the inescapably solemn self-consciousness of the people giving the law unto themselves.
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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.
