Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.

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• I have nothing against priests. In fact, I tried for a time to be one... It should be clear, then, that I respect, and am often fond of, the many priests in my life.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Life
  • Time
  • Respect

• I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Up
  • Together
  • Pretty

• A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Know
  • Enjoy
  • Fans

• All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.

  

  Xenophon
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• In the life of any actor or actress, there is inevitably a time when they will be eligible to act in a Tom Stoppard play. He has written a lot, and they are revived often, and there are so many characters of different ages that it was more likely I'd end up in something of his than that I wouldn't.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Trying
  • Loved
  • Show

• Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Up
  • Family
  • Why

• We are very private, so we decided from early on that we will keep the press and editors and everybody out of our house.

  

  Iman
  • House
  • Early
  • Press

• Whenever I release a record, it's my record. It's not a selfish thought. I may work all year 'round for other people. So, finally, when I come out with my own album, it should be me with the creative help of other musicians.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • People
  • Work
  • May

• I had never danced all my life until I shot for my first song in 'Chirutha.'

  

  Ram Charan
  • Life
  • Song
  • My Life

• Writing is the beast unto itself.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Writing
  • Beast
  • Unto

• Sixty slutz all of them dying from asphyxia/after they sip piss through a Christopher Reeves sippie cup

  

  Eminem
  • Dying

• An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for years or months. A competent attorney can delay one even longer.

  

  Lawyer

• The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

  

  Leigh Hunt
  • People
  • Famous

• Before him, numberless lovers smiled and talked.And death was observed with sudden cries,And birth with laughter and pain.And the trees grew taller and blacker against the skiesAnd night came down again.

  

  Conrad Aiken
  • Death
  • Night
  • Pain

• You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like 'As Confucius say,' but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.

  

  Bruce Lee
  • People
  • Different
  • Family

• I never thought that I would be so attracted to television, but I don't think gigs like 'Dexter' come along too often.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter

• You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Dreams
  • Realize
  • Your

• Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Worst
  • Waste
  • Human Life

• President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible sitution - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.a

  

  Gaddis Smith
  • Impossible
  • Worst
  • Advisers

• When you're walking around in Shanghai, I called it the City of Near Misses, because they do not stop for pedestrians. And the pedestrians do not have the right of way. It's those little things that no one tells you.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Stop
  • City
  • Walking

• Much of the economic decay of southeast Asia (as of many other parts of the world) is undoubtedly due to a heedless and shameful neglect of trees.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • World

• Via social media, I reached out, asking about relationships, dreams, hopes, fears, the whole gambit, and the stories that really resonated with me, I wrote songs about.

  

  Ne-Yo