Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.

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In my town, and especially in my area, there were people from everywhere: Algerians, Senegalese, French people, Asians, all kinds of immigrants and natives, and everyone circulated.
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Well Sid Pollack was... He was I would say probably, probably the most influential on me.
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I like a little bit of designer, with a bit of vintage and high street mixed in. I love it when you find those one-off key pieces, which end up becoming investment pieces.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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Since there are only so many ways to kill a person, a good portion of homicides look pretty much alike.
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I'm very respectful in everything I wear. I think about it.
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In a repressed society, artists fulfil a sense of harking back to instant gratification, or immediate expression, by doing things that function on the edge of society, or outside of what is conventionally accepted.
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Science is a beautiful gift to humanity; we should not distort it.
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My forms are not abstractions of things in the real world. They're also not symbols. I would say that my job is to invent these forms and to put them together in a way that keeps your interest, to give the forms a quirky identity so you can engage with them, so you realize there's an inner intelligence or logic.
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It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.
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Josh Brolin is fascinating to watch because he is just so effortless. It's like watching a really gifted athlete run, and I just didn't have that.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and the very magnitude of the crime the best excuse for doing nothing.
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Every animal has his or her story, his or her thoughts, daydreams, and interests. All feel joy and love, pain and fear, as we now know beyond any shadow of a doubt. All deserve that the human animal afford them the respect of being cared for with great consideration for those interests or left in peace.
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I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.
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My family is awesome.
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I am mad about my wife.
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I pride myself on being the type of artist who can work half in the R&B world and half in the pop world.