Shawn Mendes Quotes
I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Invention is not enough. Tesla invented the electric power we use, but he struggled to get it out to people. You have to combine both things: invention and innovation focus, plus the company that can commercialize things and get them to people.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Football has an important role to play in society. Players should have a sense of social responsibility, have a moral dimension to them which shows up in good conduct.
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I don't read novels, but my semiotics study influenced everything about the way I read and edit and write.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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You don't make it anywhere without someone helping you out.
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Fear is not a friend of mine. But it's something to have a healthy awareness of.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I'm letting inspiration move me, in whatever direction it may, without concern if this sounds too rap or too indie, or there's too many words in it.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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I hate to go to movies or watch a TV show and know the ending within 15 minutes.
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I see most of my movies at festivals.
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I'm a people person. I never get tired of watching people, especially young people.
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If the day ever comes when I think something is okay simply because district schools do it, I hope my board fires me.
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I was super-obsessed with cover videos. When I was, like, 10, I would come home from school and watch them from 4 o'clock until 8 o'clock every night. I was so intrigued that people took these super-popular songs and did them their own way.
