Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.

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• Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Sometimes
  • Finish

• I get asked to comment a lot on inequality in cycling, but for me it has never been an issue. Everything has always been equal on the track, and the male and female riders are all part of the same team, and we all mix freely.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Team
  • Same
  • Inequality

• It makes you vulnerable to win an award. It's nice to get the attention, but your neck is stuck out.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Attention
  • Nice
  • Win

• My work in the House of Representatives, at this time in my life, is completed. It is time to return home.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.

  

  W. Richard Stevens
  • Country
  • Job
  • Cold

• I can understand Communism, but not Socialism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • I Can
  • Socialism
  • Communism

• I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.

  

  Nas
  • People
  • Life
  • Thought

• The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Ideas
  • Air
  • Breathing

• The primary goal of management education was, as originally conceived, to impart knowledge that could be applied to a variety of real-world business situations.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • World
  • Real
  • Business

• Same-sex marriage is not the future.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Future
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• I am quite short, but that never comes across when I'm onstage in front of people. When I get offstage and greet an audience afterwards, their first reaction is to comment on my height because it seems like a very drastic difference.

  

  Kaki King
  • People
  • Audience
  • Short

• The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Up
  • Party
  • Voice

• I've got to be out doing a million things. That's how I find stories. That's how I get the relationships and get the projects that I get with the writers, the directors.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Doing
  • Find
  • Relationships

• The stammer was a way of telling the world that he was not like others, a way of expressing his singularity.

  

  Ted Morgan
  • World
  • Way
  • Like

• I think that I come off as, 'Nothing bothers me, I don't care! I'm funny and sassy.' But I'm deeply sensitive. Not only about myself but to others. Not to pat myself on the back, empathy is a quality I've cultivated over my life. It came naturally to me as a child.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Life
  • Funny
  • Quality

• These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.

  

  Jackson Browne

• Italiens ou français, la misère nous regarde tous. Depuis que l'histoire écrit et que la philosophie médite, la misère est le vêtement du genre humain; le moment serait enfin venu d'arracher cette guenille, et de remplacer, sur les membres nus de l'Homme-Peuple, la loque sinistre du passé par la grande robe pourpre de l'aurore.

  

  Victor Hugo

• A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Moving

• For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • Life
  • Faith

• I try every day to do something that I've never done before or make some sound that I've never made before.

  

  Brian Reitzell
  • Done

• If I spent my time wondering about what genre I wanted to be in or where I was on the charts, I wouldn't be able to write these kinds of song. I'd be too busy doing other things.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Song

• We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.

  

  Carlton Cuse
  • Up
  • Real
  • Dream

• Digital is my safety net. I know how to use it, how to operate those cameras; it makes sense to me. Film is much more mysterious.

  

  David Lowery Camper Van Beethoven
  • Safety
  • Mysterious

• There's a whole advantage being an executive as an artist.

  

  Ne-Yo