Eva Mendes Quotes
Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.

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It's funny, I remember doing the Johnny Carson show, and, uh, I couldn't afford my rent.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.
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I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.
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I was exercising so hard that I began to lose weight.
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I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.
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One of the greatest and simplest tools for learning more and growing is doing more.
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I came out even with all the struggles I endured on Rikers Island.
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Doing TV is great, but TV is for starring on, not for watching.
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Do you know how many calories are in butter and cheese and ice cream? Would you get your dog up in the morning for a cup of coffee and a donut?
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In my opinion it is harmful to place important things in the hands of philanthropy, which in Russia is marked by a chance character. Nor should important matters depend on leftovers, which are never there. I would prefer that the government treasury take care of it.
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I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'
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When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
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I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
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Through the years, I found we had Native American blood in us. My great-grandmother came from the island of Martinique, and they hooked up with the Native Americans of Louisiana.
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The solutions to Africa's problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.
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The decline of witch-belief was . . . entirely the product of religious skepticism. . . . The Catholic Church did not reform itself on this matter; it was forced by outside pressure to reform. To be sure, the Protestant churches were no better in this regard; it is simply that they had less time - only two or three centuries - to engage in the torching of witches. After all, John Wesley, the founder of Methodism, stated quite correctly that disbelief in witches meant a disbelief in the Bible.
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Dreams are not without meaning wherever thay may come from-from fantasy, from the elements, or from other inspiration.
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Knowing when someone's the real deal or not, but still with putting your guard up and self-protecting, you've got to stay open. It comes back to balance.