Leo Varadkar Quotes
I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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I couldn't be luckier to wake up every morning and be so excited to get to work, even if it's five in the morning.
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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.
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I never going to satisfy everybody, so I decided to satisfy myself.
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What we do tomorrow is more important than what we did yesterday.
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I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
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You will not be satisfied unless you are contributing something to or for the benefit of others.
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Among our responsibilities is to make sure that 23 percent of all government contracts go to small businesses. That's about $150 billion annually, from all the government agencies.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.
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My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
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I'm a long distance runner, and I get my best ideas when I'm out running. It also helps that I can't write it down immediately - if you hold onto an idea, other things will stick on it.
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Guys are very simple.
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The start-ups that do well are the ones that are working all the time.
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I have a lot of friends who are trying to clean up their act, or that are still making trouble for themselves, so I'm definitely well-versed on what goes on in the mind and the heart of a person who self-destructs as their coping mechanism, and also what they're like when you take their preferred substance away.
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I'd like to die with my boots on.
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Investors making purchases in an overheated market need to recognize that it may often take an extended period for the value of even an outstanding company to catch up with the price they paid.
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'Then he was wrong to have been born at all. Cheek- eek-eek-eek, oo, hoo!' chuckled Rinkitink, his fat body shaking with merriment. 'But it's hard to prevent oneself from being born; there's no chance for protest, eh, Bilbil?'
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When you pass 70, you forget your enemies. You think about the nice people instead.
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Once I decided I was happy with something, I'd try to send it off into the world, and either someone would want it exactly as it was, or it would remain in my notebook/laptop, and no one would ever see it. This is probably why I didn't work with an editor until I was 26. The solipsism!
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I am deeply sensitive to the spell of nationalism. I can play about thirty Bohemian folk songs ... on my mouth-organ. My oldest friend, who is Czech and a patriot, cannot bear to hear me play them because he says I do it in such a schmalzy way, 'crying into the mouth organ'. I do not think I could have written the book on nationalism which I did write, were I not capable of crying, with the help of a little alcohol, over folk songs, which happen to be my favourite form of music.
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I just want to be a fighter. I just like to win fights.
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As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.
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I've never had a choice of which government department I would hold. I've always been assigned a department by the Taoiseach.
