Leo Varadkar Quotes
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The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
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I get asked this a lot: Why has soccer not succeeded? My answer is, soccer has succeeded. It is already the fastest growing youth participation sport in the U.S. It has already succeeded at the youth level, no question.
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The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
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I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.
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But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?
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There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.
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Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'
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Division of labor is a justification for sloth.
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As those persons who despair of ever being rich make little account of small expenses, thinking that little added to a little will never make any great sum.
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My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.
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I don't rule out raising some taxes into the future.
