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 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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Football matters so much to people, and they get very defensive - or angry.
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Society is so divided in its perception of public school people. Most people who went to public school behave in the right way, but every now and then there will be someone who comes along and ruins it.
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Growing up, I listened to a lot of jazz and blues records - John Coltrane and Etta James. I was also really into Radiohead and the BeeGees.
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No one can deny that much of our modern advertising is essentially dishonest; and it can be maintained that to lie freely and all the time for private profit is not to abuse the right of free speech, whether it is a violation of the law or not. But again the practical question is, how much lying for private profit is to be permitted by law?
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Transgender folks have been part of the push for LGBT equality from the beginning, and we've spoken with loud and intelligent voices and have found political and personal success and advancement all over the world.
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Unless we are free from fear we will not be able to give our children the kind of future that we would like them to have.
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Huge 'Scandal' fan, and I have been since the beginning.
