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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With this business, you have to learn to go with the flow. Not being able to grow in comfort is a beautiful thing when you're uncomfortable, so just embrace it and roll with it, and you'll come out stronger.
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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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I try to put out fires when bizarre rumors get started.
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I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.
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I think of hip hop as a mass media, radio, MTV thing. It’s been extremely relevant over the last 10 years and rock music is just not anymore—-a tear rolls down my cheek as I say that.
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It's a huge home run under the circumstances the last couple of days, with what my mom went through. She wanted me to get here and not miss any games.
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The terror of failure can make you feel like a failure. So a bunch of people think you're not very good at your thing. How much do you invest in what they say? How much do you care? Failure is not putting yourself on the line.
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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.
