Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I get recognized so much. It happens mostly when I'm in Starbucks.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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Denied anything ardently desired, the individual or state will argue and parley just so long - then, if the impelling motive be sufficiently great, will cast aside every rule and break down every acquired inhibition, plunging viciously after the object wished; all the more fantastically savage because of previous repression.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
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The only person I'd cry if I met would be Beyonce.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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Swimming is my passion and something that I love.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Baking is my pastime. I just love creating things. But it's not what I want to do for a living. Acting is what I want to do.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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In my early 20s, I didn't even know what the Groundlings was. I had no idea. But I know how to break down a script and work on the character.
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I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.
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It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.
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My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.
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My style icon has always been David Bowie. Just because of the variety of images and looks he created.
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There are some very similar moments in the early work where the focus was on drawing, abstraction and fragmentation. Then it moved to the development of ideas. Lately it has become what architecture should be, which is more fluid organization. There has not been so much 'a change' but 'a development'.
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I needed to be sexier. I needed to be more hip. I needed to be more edgy and this and that. 'No, don't write that kind of song, write this type of song. No, don't work with that producer, work with this producer. No, don't wear those clothes, wear these clothes.' And I didn't want to be a puppet, you know?
