Shawn Mendes Quotes
I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.
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We must do our part to end poverty in Korea so that the next generation doesn't experience what we are going through now.
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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I admit that when challenging times first surface, it's not first instinct to do a happy dance. But when you take time to pause and add insight to injury, you will immediately start to feel empowered to make those majorly needed life shifts.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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Acting is the most insecure profession in the world - you're insecure if you're successful, you're insecure if you're not. A tightrope walk without a net. It's a miracle I'm still standing!
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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A Christian is a walking sermon. They preach far more than a minister does, for they preach all week long.
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Balance in life is the key, as Aristotle taught us. Nobody likes a naive Pollyanna, but neither do we like to be around people who are constantly complaining and finding fault.
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I can't always live my life for everybody else.
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The enemy of the modern woman is not women who like fashion or are writing about it. The enemy is stereotypes that come from all places and that tell you to be one way or the other. The enemy is really real sexist people, like Todd Akin, and people who are violent against women physically or sexually.
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We have been sold a Muslim boogeyman. We are buying into it, and we are terrified, and that terror is causing people to lash out at comedians like myself or women wearing hijabs, or anyone who seems to defend equality for Muslims worldwide.
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I'm not just writing songs that are narrating my life, but everyone else around my age because they're super-relatable.
