Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.

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I think people can tell when you're pandering to them, and they feel insulted. I think that one thing that is really nice about the work that I do is that I can just sort of make mistakes or try out different ideas or be inconsistent and be vulnerable.
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From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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The idea of a soulmate is beautiful and very romantic to talk about it in a movie or a song, but in reality, I find it scary.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
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If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.
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Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
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Larry Merchant's just a commentator. He don't know nothing about boxing.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I love writing. I think writing and directing go hand in hand.
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I really detest movies like 'Indecent Proposal' and 'Pretty Woman' because they send a message to women that sleeping with a rich man is the ultimate goal and really that's such a small part of it.
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I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.
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You have to accept the fact that not all your decisions are going to be right - and when they are wrong, you have to own it right away. I try not to have an emotional connection or investment in the decisions I make so that when they need to change, I can quickly move on to: 'How do we fix this?'
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Me as an artist, I'm more notorious for writing songs that celebrate women, songs that are all about the positive element of the immensely confusing creature that is woman.