Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I hated singing. I wanted to be an actress. But I don't think I'd have made it any other way.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too.
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I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016, and the amount of planning is a revelation - borrowing from museums and collections all over the world.
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I have this desire in the back of my mind now of making music and film at the same time - putting the two together.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.
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I am very interested in Ayurvedic medicine and hope to explore it more someday. I only have a very superficial understanding of the whole thing right now. But learning what my body type is has shifted my whole self-care regime a bit, and I feel better because of it.
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The Metropolitan Opera, of course, is the gold standard in opera. The Met experience includes the huge stage, the vast audience, the elaborate sets. Anyone who saw 'Faust' there - I did - knows exactly what hell is like, complete with fire, smoke and terror.
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The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
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I always had confidence in my game.
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.
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What is a highway to one is a disaster to the other.
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I say that human nature is the original beginning and the raw material, and deliberate effort is what makes it patterned, ordered, and exalted.
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Transitioning out of the military after a decade or more of service can be exciting and scary. Even more so when you have a family to support and are not experienced with the challenges of transitioning from active duty to civilian life.
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One of the stupidest things we ever did was to take creative departments out of the agencies.
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I regularly go hiking with my dog in L.A.
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Huge 'Scandal' fan, and I have been since the beginning.
