Shawn Mendes Quotes
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The soul is part of the body. The mind is part of the body. When folks do physical violence to black people, to black bodies in this country, the soul as we construe it is damaged, too - the mind is damaged, too.
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When I was in my teenage years, I went to sign up as a cadet entrant to the police force but was at the very last moment rejected, just as I was about to sign my name on the dotted line. I won't get into why that happened, but it was a moment where it could've been predetermined then that I was off to become a policeman.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.
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American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
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I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.
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You're in the public eye and you just hope that people don't come up and interrupt you while your in the middle of a meal or a conversation or something like that.
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I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.
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They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
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First, do enough training. Then believe in yourself and say: I can do it. Tomorrow is my day. And then say: the person in front of me, he is just a human being as well; he has two legs, I have two legs, that is all. That is mentally how you prepare.
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I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.
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My father had a passion for love. It's mostly what he talked about in his songs, and I still have his old records today.
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It's so easy for me to get caught up in the feeling of a city like Venice, where everything is just beautiful color and gorgeous buildings that are so peaceful. You can roam around and get lost in the labyrinth.
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I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.
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The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.
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The White House has been noticeably schizophrenic on Guantanamo.
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My only idol is God, and I kick myself when I don't pray regularly enough.
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I'm the kind of person who embarks on an endless leapfrog down the great moral issues. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal and rebut the refutation. Endlessly.
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I'm not a rapper.
