Eva Mendes Quotes

Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.

Eva Mendes

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• I love to make a one-pot meal - think stir-fry but in the French Fricassee. I start with what takes the longest to roast and then add vegetables, fresh herbs, and starch until the meal is complete in one shot.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Love
  • Think
  • Start

• I get a lot of fan mail addressed to Bilbo and sometimes Sir Bilbo - it's hardly ever addressed to Ian Holm, in fact. My business manager drafts the replies, and then I pop in to the office and sign them, 'Bilbo!'

  

  Ian Holm
  • Business
  • Sometimes
  • Manager

• I am no historian, but Hungary is a country which has never known democracy - and by that, I mean not a democratic political system, but an organic process which has mobilised the entire country's society. In the case of Hungary, this development was blocked by the growth of the Ottoman empire in the 16th century.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Country
  • Society
  • Political

• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Development
  • Advertising

• We have come to the edge of the abyss and now it is time for a bold step forward. There is a political view that the tougher you are, the more credible you are.

  

  Ed Balls
  • Time
  • Political
  • Step

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Feel

• You can write a radical Norwegian or a conservative Norwegian. And when I changed to a conservative Norwegian, I gained this distance or objectivity in the language. The gap released something in me, and in the writing, which made it possible for the protagonist to think thoughts I had never myself thought.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Language

• Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.

  

  Tacitus
  • Truth
  • Freedom
  • Fear

• The businessman says 'If I don't do it first, somebody else will.' The artist says 'If I don't do it first, nobody else will.'

  

  LeRoy Neiman

• I think when you take off that jacket and they see that ‘I LOVE GRANDMA’ T-shirt, they’re going to rip your heart out.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • Heart
  • Think
  • See

• My cutter has been key for me, and my curveball. I've been able to spot them where I want to spot them.

  

  Eli Manning
  • Spot
  • Curveball
  • Cutter

• Those who reach decisions promptly and definitely, know what they want, and generally get it.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Want
  • Know
  • Decisions

• Love is a spy who is plotting treason, In league with that warm, red rebel, the Heart.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Red
  • Rebel

• Oh, and once, when I was in the Marines, I got a perfect score on my physical fitness test.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Perfect
  • Fitness
  • Score

• Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Reminded
  • Voluntarily
  • Moral Light

• Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Tried
  • Liking
  • I Tried

• If Christ came back tomorrow, He'd have to change planes in Frankfurt. Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • Air
  • Travel

• I do have tatoos, and I do wear leather, but there are other sides of me, that my film express.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Film
  • Sides
  • Leather

• On the one hand I have a clear and distinct idea of myself, in so far as I am a thinking, non-extended thing; and on the other hand I have a distinct idea of body, in so far a this is simply an extended, non-thinking thing. And, accordingly, it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and exist without it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Idea
  • Hands
  • Exist

• Perfectionism is boring and doesn't exist-to strive for it makes you uninteresting.

  

  Eva Mendes
  • Exist
  • Perfectionism
  • Uninteresting