Shawn Mendes Quotes
From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
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After I left college, I went to work at the Royal Opera House in London, which became a real catalyst for me because it made me realize that I was interested in cinema and in the way life is thrust at you. So I started making films.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I still consider myself a working-class girl and would send my kids to public school.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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If it took seven days to make a living with a restaurant, then we needed to be in some other line of work.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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At the end of the day, we have an economy that works for the rich by cheating the poor, and unequal schools are the result of that, not the cause.
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If you want to live a long life, focus on making contributions.
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My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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When our backs are on the wall, that's the time when we enjoy having fun, relax out there, do our thing, don't get the pressure on, see the results, day by day, game by game.
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I think I might become a pescatarian. I love sushi, couldn't give it up.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Reading is exercise for our brains in the guise of pleasure. Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them.
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Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.
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You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.
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There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure.
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We have a good relationship, but she is completely different than me. My sister, she is not sporty at all.
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An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, "Things that never happened."
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From 15 to 18, everybody is a different person. Every six months, I have a whole new outlook on life.
