Leo Varadkar Quotes

I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

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• Writing can't be too calculated. My best writing is when I set it aside, move on. It's not when I'm crafting a sentence, thinking about what word should follow another.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Best

• I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.

  

  Madeline Zima
  • Small
  • Church
  • Learn

• I am a businessman.

  

  Ralph Norman
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• I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • Kids
  • Very
  • Blind

• Brokenness is the operative issue of our time - broken souls, broken hearts, broken places.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Time
  • Broken
  • Places

• I got a few marriage proposals in my 20s. I just wasn't ready. I just knew if I committed, I would've wound up doing something wrong, messing it up. I still felt like I had some living to do.

  

  Queen Latifah
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  • Doing

• One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • Up
  • Think
  • Night

• In a changing global landscape, Europe will be more and more an indispensible power.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Power
  • Changing
  • Landscape

• They had certainly exasperated them, and could not disperse them, as after every charge - and some of these drove the people right against the shutters in the shops in the Strand - they returned again.

  

  Walter Crane
  • People
  • Right
  • Again

• I was madder than a quadriplegic with a stag full of scratch off tickets, I'll tell you what.

  

  Larry the Cable Guy

• ...our quarrels with the world are like our quarrels with God: no matter how right we are, we are wrong.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • World
  • God

• Your csh still thinks true is false. Write to your vendor today and tell them that next year Configure ought to 'rm /bin/csh' unless they fix their blasted shell.

  

  Larry Wall
  • True
  • Today

• You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • People
  • Time
  • Bored

• I'm usually pretty insecure.

  

  Britt Daniel
  • Pretty

• All mammals undergo a certain degree of diversification. Darwin knew that. When he drew a family tree, it had many branches on it.

  

  Donald Johanson
  • Family
  • Tree

• A band is not a marriage. There are no oaths of allegiance. If you feel your life will be better served by splitting up the group, you've got to do it - but of course it does cause problems.

  

  Steve Winwood Blind Faith
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  • Up
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• I believe that all is illusion and vanity outside the treasure of truths slowly accumulated, and which will never again be lost. I believe that the sum of these truths, always increasing, will at last confer on man incalculable power and peace, if not happiness. Yes, I believe in the final triumph of life.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Believe
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• I remember talking with a friend. He asked me a question. He said, 'What's your end game? What's your goal with this?' And I said to him, 'You know, I want to win the Academy Award one day.' And he said, 'OK'.

  

  Ki Hong Lee
  • Remember
  • Game
  • Question

• I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

  

  Ben Whishaw

• Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Ability

• Hopefully, America will really get a sense of how justice can be served in this country. And hopefully, they'll forget the Simpson trial.

  

  Andrew Cohen
  • Country
  • America
  • Justice

• I just have to come clean and admit I am an extremely, painfully slow writer. I have this unfortunate - or fortunate, I'm not sure which is correct - habit of editing while I'm writing which everyone tells me that I shouldn't do that. But that's just the way I write and I think it's important to stay true to your own writing style and momentum.

  

  Nami Mun
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Writing

• I had a meal last night. I ordered everything in French, surprised everybody. It was a Chinese restaurant. I said to this Chinese waiter, 'Look, this chicken I got here is cold.' He said, 'It should be, it's been dead two weeks.'

  

  Tommy Cooper
  • Night
  • Cold
  • Chinese

• I have always stuck my neck out on policy issues.

  

  Leo Varadkar