Shawn Mendes Quotes
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Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
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With myself, how to pass time becomes sometimes the question - unavoidably, though it strikes me as a thing unspeakably sad in a life so short as ours.
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I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice.
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For me, men and women are different. A man is genetically gifted to pull more than a woman. But at the same time, I don't consider women to be any less than men. In fact, I feel we are far more intelligent than them.
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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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I act because it's the one time I'm sure of my identity. There's no doubt. It's on paper.
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And when I first came out from New York, I hadn't driven in a long time. Now I'm like Joe Speedster.
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The worst thing that can happen to a man is to lose his money, the next worst his health, the next worst his reputation.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.
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I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.
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The first time I went to Johnny Depp's house in LA is when I realized what I was getting myself into. I knew he was famous, but I didn't really know what that entailed.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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We must stop posing as victims of the West and behaving negatively towards the West. We must participate with the West on an equal footing in the reconstruction of the world.
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I believe, for a long time, protracted wars test the will of any democracy, to be sure, and people will underwrite a protracted war if they see some progress. But if they don't see progress, and it appears to be futile and useless, then that political support begins to evaporate rather quickly.
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When was the last time you spent a quiet moment just doing nothing - just sitting and looking at the sea, or watching the wind blowing the tree limbs, or waves rippling on a pond, a flickering candle or children playing in the park?
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When I began writing science fiction in the middle '60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
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No one remembers who climbed Mount Everest the second time.
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Pope John Paul, a man of peace and compassion, was one of the most revered leaders of our time.
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A lot of ultramarathoners are soloists. They're single and live lives off the grid.
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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As soon as I get time, I really wanna dig down and do some acting.
