Leo Varadkar Quotes
I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.
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Since I never get on a scale, I have no idea how much weight I've lost!
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We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning. It's hard to have meaning in a closet, encapsulated by nothing. I think you really have to expand yourself and your life and do what you can for other people.
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Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I'm not sad at all about turning 40.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.
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When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.
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Action fiction is driven more by what than by who. Put that ticking nuclear suitcase under Manhattan, and it's relatively easy to create suspense. Literary fiction is driven more by who than by what.
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N.Y. hip-hop is ok, but we gotta become brave again; we have to be brave enough and do something new - that's what New York is about... New.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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I will do as I usually do. Tomorrow is going to be a day like any other day.
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I'm pretty casual, but I'm starting to obsess a little bit; like, one of my favorite things to do is to pair really feminine accessories with edgier outfits or vice versa.
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Getting an audience requires luck as well as talent. Some artists are private and shy. It costs them too much.
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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If I start working on something, I get a little too driven.
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I just think it looks so cool when a woman has a dirty martini. She looks so powerful.
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I have a preference for writing that deals with domestic issues; even in visual art, I like work that focuses on very small aspects of human life. I like movies that have a very narrow focus. I can see how it might be viewed as limiting, but I don't experience it that way.
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Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect on them.
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One of the Robinson brothers from the Black Crowes turned me on to Nick Drake.
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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood.
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I find it scary when people talk about me as a future leader. It's like putting a big target on your back.
