Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.

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• A man with a silver spoon may get his share of supporters, but he can never be an inspiration for somebody! Patience and hard work are the key to every man's success.

  

  Kailash Kher
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• The way I work is by infinitely playing a very simple loop over and over, and then I start layering things.

  

  Washed Out
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• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
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• What's better, a poetic intuition or an intellectual work? I think they complement each other.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
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• I've done fine in this business, but I've never made quite enough money to have a family or have many options.

  

  Larry Drake
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• Washington is horribly broken. We are encountering a day of reckoning and this movement, this Tea Party movement, is a message to Washington that we're unhappy and that we want things done differently.

  

  Rand Paul
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• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
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• At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.

  

  Kate Moss
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• My scientific work is much more practically minded - to change something, to effect something. And the music I do is much more soft power, about changing minds.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
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• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• I dance. A lot. I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.

  

  Inga Muscio
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• For 100 m., you have to go out fast but also bring it back, so we've been doing a lot of work on the back-end speed.

  

  Adam Peaty
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• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
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• We can find a great sector or business, but we're investing so early that unless there's this tenacious grit, determination, resourcefulness, ability to evolve, it won't work.

  

  Dan Levitan
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• Nothing is as embarrassing as watching your boss do something you assured him couldn't be done.

  

  Earl Wilson
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• If I let myself go, nothing will get done.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
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• I think work begets work.

  

  Adam Baldwin
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• I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

  

  Jenna Fischer
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• I can't envision an honest war novel that left war in a positive light.

  

  Kevin Powers
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• I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
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• I do listen to a lot of music, but I don't listen when I'm writing.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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• I dreamed of one day starring in a film. I've done that twice. Denzel Washington has done it countless times, so I still got some work to do.

  

  Ne-Yo
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