Eva Mendes Quotes

If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

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• I was always one of those fortunate people who never wanted to be anything other than a singer and an actor. Most people know me as a singer, but I am also an actor.

  

  Irwin Thomas
  • People
  • Actor
  • Singer

• Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• I wish I could describe anything I do as conscious or strategized. To be honest, in acting, you have so little control. The only control you have is if you're lucky enough to be in a position, which is not very often, in which you have choice. It's about what choices you make, and for me, it's entirely instinctive.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Choices

• My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • People
  • Country
  • Hands

• Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Words
  • Single
  • Language

• It's a lot harder to get people to 'ooh' and 'aah' over beets and carrots than it is to get them to 'ooh' and 'aah' over artichokes or asparagus, and I enjoy being able to take these humble, 'lowbrow' foodstuffs up a few notches and serve them with great exuberance.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I would start seeing, in just the sense I was saying now, the kind of record it was going to be and what the arrangement demands, and what my vocal part should be in the record. This was all emerging as the song was emerging.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Song
  • Record
  • Part

• How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Pornography
  • Corrupts

• I don't hire people who have to be told to be nice. I hire nice people.

  

  Leona Helmsley
  • People
  • Nice
  • Hire

• We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • True
  • Environment

• History is a series of mistakes. Now the task is to plan for those mistakes so those of us who are populists can actually take over the reins of power when the right mistakes are made.

  

  Zephyr Teachout
  • Power
  • History

• Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Want
  • Limits

• Liberty is not to be found in any form of government; she is in the heart of the free man; he bears her with him everywhere.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Heart
  • She

• To express himself well, the artist should be hidden. The trouble is that if an artist knows he has genius, he's done for. The only salvation is to work like a labourer, and not have delusions of grandeur.

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Work
  • Done
  • Artist

• When people come together around common vision, they can accomplish great things. We need the instruments that pull our people together, not apart.

  

  Nainoa Thompson
  • People
  • Great
  • Together

• When you're president, you have more power to help more people, but you also are the prisoner of circumstances as well, and countervailing political forces more.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Power
  • President
  • Political forces

• The modern world is very wealthy, it's full of options. It's not like "This is the land I was born on and I have to make the most of it, and these are the people who are near me, and so they will become my family."

  

  Ian Bogost
  • People
  • World
  • Family

• If you took me to Coachella for our first date, it would probably be a done deal. It would be a sure thing.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Deal
  • First Date