Leo Varadkar Quotes
I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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My plan is just to love harder than I've ever loved before, hide nothing, and embrace that I'm an imperfect human being. Oh, and sadness - sadness is everything.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Well, I'm a writer by nature, and I got a little bit - a little taste of a daily fast-paced writing job, writing career, and I loved it.
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
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At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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Do you remember the wrestler Andre the Giant? Famous. He had acromegaly.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.
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I feel very much satisfied to play in Baltimore.
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I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I started throwing on dresses and stuff. But that wasn't going to happen because everyone kept calling me sir. So I thought I'd change the method and just start wearing what I wanted to wear.
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Before I could even hold a pen I was singing.
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Of course I got lipstick all over my lil' nose in about 5 seconds, nothing's changed.
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The irrepressible conflict propounded by abolitionism has produced now its legitimate fruits - disunion.
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I pledge as Taoiseach to use my office, for as long as I hold it, to advance the cause of LGBT rights, to press for marriage equality across Ireland, to speak up for LGBT rights around the world where they are under attack, and to push for the implementation of the sexual health strategy here at home at a time when it is more important than ever.
