Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

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• What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.

  

  Varley O'Connor
  • Facts
  • Fact
  • Deeper

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.

  

  Raf Simons
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Fashion
  • Loved
  • Advertising

• We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Food
  • Environment
  • Care

• I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn't taste gross - I mean, I wouldn't put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos... a lot of stuff.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Pretty
  • Everything
  • Taste

• A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• One of the things I'm really good at is procrastinating.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Good
  • Things
  • Really

• I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • School
  • High
  • Think

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • People
  • Alone
  • Teaches

• I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Know
  • Myself
  • Green

• With 'posts' running in the millions, Internet message boards have become an essential part of the savvy investor's arsenal.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Running
  • Internet
  • Become

• Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • You
  • Stronger
  • Crisis

• So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Doing

• I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Believe
  • American
  • Dream

• When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • Write

• I try to be grateful for the abundance of the blessings that I have, for the journey that I'm on and to relish each day as a gift.

  

  James McGreevey
  • Journey

• I was obsessed with The Sound of Music. I always feel nostalgic watching it.

  

  Sophie McShera
  • Feels
  • Sound
  • Obsessed

• If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • World
  • Writing
  • Choices

• The Constitution of the United States has been mentioned...as the basis of wise decisions in fundamental principles as applied to all matters pertaining to law and order, because it was framed by men whom God raised up for this very purpose. But in addition to that inspired document, we must always keep in mind that the greatest weapons that can be forged against any false philosophy are the positive teachings of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Up
  • God
  • Men

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• I'm trying to escape the shackles of a pen and a pad. I've sat in sessions with Jay-Z where he doesn't write anything down. He'll come up with the most incredible triple entendre, all in his head - it's amazing.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Amazing