Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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The Cause of God is not a theatrical display that is presented every hour, of which some new diversion may be asked for every day. If it were thus, the Cause of God would become mere child's play.
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I'm Latin, for crying out loud - I can't hold anything back!
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On the tech side, little start-ups can do something magnificent. They don't need too much in terms of plants and infrastructure.
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When a man looks across a street, sees a pretty girl, and waves at her, that's not a rendezvous, that's a passing acquaintance. When he walks across the street and nibbles on her ear, that's a rendezvous!
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The best way to use the gold of the Redeemer is for the redemption of those in peril.
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I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.
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Every outer purpose is doomed to 'fail' sooner or later, simply because it is subject to the law of impermanence of all things.
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Reason tells us that creation never can be perfectly happy. So long as it is incomplete it must put up with imperfection and sorrow. It can only be perfect when it ceases to be creation, and is God. Do our prayers dare go so far?
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
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Public policy is a study in imperfection. It involves imperfect people, with imperfect information, facing deeply imperfect choices - so it's not surprising that they're getting imperfect results.
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Let's make sure that the Internet stays open to those who need it the most.
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I feel like the live record thing is something that I've been getting used to as the years go by and with this being my second one, I'm continuing to learn what works and what doesn't work. A live record is an example of that authenticity and that realness that you find in imperfection and you can hear that in this record.
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If someone is too perfect they won't look good. Imperfection is important.
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At the European table, we are systematically the most determined to advance a strategy of increased cooperation.
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They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
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I was a theatre major and started off as a playwright.
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I can't tell you how many doctors try to sell me a facelift. I've even gone as far as having someone talk me into it, but when I went over and looked at pictures of myself, I thought 'What are they going to lift?' . . Frankly, I think that in the art of aging well there's this sexuality to having those imperfections. It's sensual.
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God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.
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Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.
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Even when we were standing in church and I was getting ready to take my vow I can remember wishing that you were standing there instead of him.
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No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
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I don't want to call myself a perfectionist, because perfection is imperfection.
