Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, 'It can't be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it.' That's kind of stuck with me.
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I don't really have a main source for my style inspiration. It's really about however I feel about myself at the moment.
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Pretty is so boring now. There are so many different definitions of 'pretty.' It's so much broader than before. The old pretty is boring - nobody cares anymore.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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I think it's fun to get in a room and sweat with people. I'm happy to share my workouts with everyone.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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One of my goals is that, at a dinner party some time in the future, someone will say, 'Oh, my nephew is starting a ready-to-wear brand', and 20 people will turn around and say, 'Is he? Can we invest?' in the same way that, now, if you were to say, 'My nephew is starting a mobile app,' everyone would say, 'Oh, smashing! Can I invest?'
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Music is my balance... center of my life.
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We are quick to stick labels on others - especially those who don't fit in with the norm. 'Harold Fry' is about a broken marriage; 'Perfect' is about a broken person. They are both about finding kindness where you least expect it.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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The fact of the matter is the Arab elites are more inclined to accommodate our wishes because of certain overlapping interests that are often financial. That is not the case with the Arab masses.
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'Floating Worlds,' which received a fair amount of attention when it was first published, deserves rediscovery.
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Everything is worth precisely as much as a belch, the difference being that a belch is more satisfying.
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In my personal life, I would just feel like, I will always be cool with everyone.
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In 1843, everybody was hungry, unemployed, and conditions were very bad.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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It was a battered yellow Citroën 2CV which had had one careful owner but also three suicidally reckless ones.
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I know the music industry is based on a lot of smoke and mirrors in a lot of cases, such as making things look like one thing versus what it actually is. I feel like I've been here long enough that I've surpassed the need for any of that.
