Shawn Mendes Quotes

I'm not a rapper.

Shawn Mendes

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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.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Country
  • Mind

• 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.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Moment

• Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • People
  • Test
  • Testing

• 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.'

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Good
  • Money
  • Job

• 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.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Poetry
  • Painting

• American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.

  

  Jack Germond
  • American
  • Want
  • Attention

• I don't think that our European Union membership precludes us from building an illiberal new state based on national foundations.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Think
  • New
  • Building

• 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.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• 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.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • People
  • Me
  • Nice

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Training

• I would like people to get a differentiated historical view of Germany.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • People
  • Like
  • View

• 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.

  

  OMI
  • Father
  • Passion
  • Songs

• I have long been active in and supportive of conservation and historical preservation causes.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Long
  • Active
  • Conservation

• The orthodox Jewish faith practically excludes woman from religious life.

  

  Abraham Cahan
  • Life
  • Faith
  • Religious

• 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.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Need
  • Just Because

• 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.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Time
  • Knowledge
  • Funny

• I want to be the best fighter. I would like to fight in the biggest fights.

  

  Manny Pacquiao

• In my show I announce, ‘People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.’

  

  Lady Gaga
  • True

• As a model, we come in the room, and we are casted just on our looks. I think I'm funny; I think I'm clever. But in the end, they're picking me for my cheekbones or if I'm tall enough.

  

  Coco Rocha
  • Funny
  • Model
  • Clever

• I've stopped making frocks, but not making discoveries.

  

  Hubert de Givenchy

• I guess it's not my year right now. The wind changed the game a lot and, you know, there really was a big wind today but, you know, both of us were on the court.

  

  Anastasia Myskina
  • Game
  • Change
  • Wind

• My father...made us shop at Goodwill. I found things to wear and got Best Dressed (in the yearbook) two years in a row. I had lemons, so I made lemonade.

  

  Nick Cannon
  • Father
  • Attitude
  • Found

• I'm not a rapper.

  

  Shawn Mendes