Camila Mendes Quotes
I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?
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When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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I'm honestly all over the board. I think if I had to pick one, I'd probably say it's country first, but I listen to literally everything: country, pop, rock, rap.
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If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever.
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As a scholar who regularly surveys archival material, I think that, a century from now, cultural historians will find David Horowitz's spiritual and political odyssey paradigmatic for our time.
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Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into.
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I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
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I love aging. Why would I want to be 21 for the rest of my life?
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I have written stories since I was a child.
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I'm not out looking for a cause. They sort of find me or find my heart. But sure, there's always time for that. My big mouth can talk all the time.
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I hardly ever watch the news... I love reading newspapers, but I know they're dying out.
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Sometimes, the supposedly weak groups turn out to be very difficult, and the supposedly strong ones are easier to take control of.
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We cast a shadow on something wherever we stand.
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When I was a boy, I wanted to be a Ninja. Now I am a man, now I am a Ninja.
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When I was younger in the theater, I didn't really feel like I got much recognition from the powers that be. I got a lot of small roles - I never got the standout roles.
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Obviously after such a long gap, one itches to get back to the game and score big runs.
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I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God.
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So grand a structure cannot be purely and simply a tomb.
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I'm a drugstore beauty girl, I love going to the drugstore and buying makeup.
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I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.
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I'm like old shoes. I've never been hip. I think the reason I'm still here is that I was never enough in fashion that I had to be replaced by something new.
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For years, Iran has worked to position itself to dominate the entire Middle East and to impose its version of radical Islam on society. It is actively working to destabilize Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and Syria.
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My style icon has always been Sidney Poitier.
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I often hear things like, 'You don't look Latina enough,' and that mentality is so backwards. The fact is, I am Latina, so how are you going to tell me that I don't look Latina?
