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.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Motivational
  • Fortune
  • Tribe

• 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.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Society

• I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Money
  • Business

• 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.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Movie
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.

  

  S. E. Hinton
  • Thinking
  • Go
  • Straight

• 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.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • Long
  • Experience
  • Getting Older

• No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Best

• If I'm offered a good case in Florida or a good case somewhere else, South Florida will win every time.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Time
  • Good
  • Win

• I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Think
  • Myself

• 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.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Face

• The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Guy
  • Dad
  • Kind

• 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.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Money
  • Giving

• 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.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • Earth
  • Taken
  • Woman

• The risk from viruses is an unanswered question - and it won't be answered until you have had organs transplanted into humans over many years.

  

  Ian Smith
  • You
  • Question
  • Risk

• Dialogue is something I don't get a lot of on 'Game of Thrones.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Game
  • Something
  • Dialogue

• Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Real
  • Lives
  • Little

• The Men at Work thing is always there, it's always going to be there. It's not something I consciously think that much about anymore. The thing that stays with you is the songs, which is a good thing for me, because the songs are the things that stand the test of time.

  

  Colin Hay Men at Work
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• My approach is to treat writing very much as a job.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Treat

• It is tricky because I do wear a lot of vintage on the red carpet, and usually when I'm getting ready, I'll say, 'We need to make sure that I don't look like I'm in a Scorsese film today.' Sometimes I do something a little bit more modern with my hair. You have to mix it up.

  

  Christina Hendricks
  • Up
  • Today
  • Hair

• I hadn't really met Colin [Farell]. It's really weird to say: 'Oh, hello, I'm Kate...I'm Colin.. shall we?' That's a bit strange. Len was fine with it. We've gone through this experience with Scott Speedman before on the first Underworld move. It was our little version of swinging. We survived that.

  

  Colin Farrell
  • Experience
  • Weird
  • Colin Farell

• Do what you love. Do what makes your heart sing. And NEVER do it for the money, Go to work to spread joy.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Work
  • Money
  • Heart

• 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.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Writing
  • Women
  • Positive