Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of R&B. I welcome it.
Quotes to Explore
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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What inspired me to become an author? I think it was the snow in New York. I looked out the window and I said, 'Well, I have to get dressed every morning to go to teach, but if I write a book, I can stay home in my bathrobe, eat candy corn.'
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I think it's important for girls to be confident. Believe in yourself and... everybody's hot.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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I wanted to act; that was my one goal. I wanted to devote all my time to acting and not waitressing or anything else.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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Sometimes in television, if there are storylines that are oft-told, people can be hypercritical of them.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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I think I am less of a prankster and more of a jokester.
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Once you've opened yourself up, it's best to go all the way.
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I try to make sure that I make music that can stand the test of time.
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I call my music ho-wop. It's the flavor of hip-hop, the flavor of doo-wop, and hoes.
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When I'm playing with the band or playing with some projects or some of my own stuff it's about the musical approach. That would be the more turntablist approach to things of where it's strictly about music.
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I'll do some running with the dogs, ride a bike; if I go to gym it's usually for cardio. I don't do weights as much; every once in while, I throw in some pushups and do leg exercises to strengthen my legs.
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All genres of music have to evolve, grow, and expand in order to maintain. I don't think there's anything wrong with the growth of R&B. I welcome it.
