Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.

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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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You know, I am a Leo. Lion is a giant part of me.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
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I like 'The Nightly Show.' People ask me what it is, and I say, 'If you're watching 'The Daily Show,' and it feels like it's getting a little darker, you're probably watching 'The Nightly Show.''
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I'm doing my best to mindfully raise my son to feel safe and encouraged to express himself.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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Maybe it's a little depressing to think that my vision of a perfect world is actually so messed up, but I think it means that I don't really understand what 'perfect' is.
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I think there's space in the market for a half-dozen kind of polling analysts.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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Of course, every artist has 'minor works' that they do, but I don't think I have any 'minor disciplines.' Each discipline I approach as a major undertaking that I put my whole self into.
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Globalised manufacturing and procurement mean that a lot of high-polluting, heavy duty jobs are transferred to China. We will ask major companies, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft and IBM to put pressure on their Chinese suppliers.
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A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.
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Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.
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All my musical influences came from my mom, who did everything to music. She played it 24 hours a day, seven days a week in our house. So that's where my love for music came from.