Leo Varadkar Quotes
Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.
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The faith that stands on authority is not faith.
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The lesson of 'CSI' is: No matter what horrible things happen, nice policemen will turn up and fix everything and return it to the status quo.
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I feel fortunate that I'm able to play diverse roles. I don't think everybody in Hollywood gets the opportunity to do that.
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Either war is obsolete, or men are.
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Newt Gingrich seldom misses a chance to note that he is a historian.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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I was born in the Midwest, where 'salad' was cherry Jell-O with bananas in it. Now children are more aware of healthy foods.
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In New Orleans, music is part of the culture. You're raised with it, from the cradle to the grave, and all in-between.
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I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
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We must start to treat climate change as what it is - a threat to United States security. And we must not delay.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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When you sample something, you're using the crutch of borrowing chords and melodies from a song that's already great, that's already stood the test of time, that's already special. When you're trying to do it all from scratch, you're writing something brand new that has to stand on its own.
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Music Box has proven itself in a few short years to be a cutting edge distributor with a sophisticated understanding of both the market and cinema.
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When you do something with a lot of honesty, appetite and commitment, the input reflects in the output.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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You can make a hit song in 15 minutes. I don't know about someone else's song, but songs that people like of mine, I've created in 15 minutes or less.
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I didn't have any relationships in my teenage years, as I felt I was not attractive enough.
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But playing your music as loud as you want and coming home drunk aren't real life. Real life, it turns out, is diapers and lawnmowers, decks that need painting, a wife that needs to be listened to, kids that need to be taught right from wrong, a checkbook, an oil change, a sunset behind a mountain, laughter at a kitchen table, too much wine, a chipped tooth, and a screaming child.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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Italy will never be a normal country. Because Italy is Italy. If we were a normal country, we wouldn't have Rome. We wouldn't have Florence. We wouldn't have the marvel that is Venice.
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There isn't a difference between how I feel in the world and how I feel as a musician, or someone who writes. They are one in the same. It's just a different presentation.
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Mum is from West Waterford, Dungarvan. She's a farmer's daughter. She's a nurse. She left home very young - I think she was 18 - and went off to train as a nurse in England. My dad is from India, just south of Mumbai. He was one of the first in his family to go to college, and he went to England in the '70s; he emigrated there.
