Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

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• Poaching white fish in moderately hot oil guarantees soft-textured flesh and allows you to prepare a sauce calmly, without the usual panic about overcooking the fish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • You
  • Oil
  • Fish

• 'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Kind
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • People
  • Kids
  • Opportunity

• I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Play
  • Language
  • Silent

• I'm as addicted to 'Power' as I am 'Empire.' I'm just grateful. We get a chance to have two phenomenal shows that we can enjoy. So when 'Empire' is over, 'Power' starts. When 'Power' is over, 'Empire' starts.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Power
  • Enjoy
  • Shows

• I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Music
  • Small
  • Growing

• I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Character
  • Defending

• In Iran, people are free to express their views. Every day, some people criticize the policies of the government.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • People
  • Free
  • Day

• Bitcoin has so much potential, and that's why the believers are trying to facilitate its use as a currency, so people use to buy things and spread it around more.

  

  Adam Draper
  • People
  • Trying
  • Why

• Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • People
  • Life
  • Star

• I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Up
  • War
  • Culture

• If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Good
  • Great
  • Quality

• You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • People
  • Work
  • Political

• I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Day
  • Religion
  • Thoughts

• Growing up in India, I knew all I needed to change the world was one good opportunity, and I prepared myself for it. When that opportunity came - in the form of the chance to earn an engineering degree - I was ready.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• I don't read books.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Books
  • Read

• I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • People
  • Writing
  • Internet

• The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Broken
  • Promise

• Communication does not depend on syntax, or eloquence, or rhetoric, or articulation but on the emotional context in which the message is being heard. People can only hear you when they are moving toward you, and they are not likely to when your words are pursuing them.

  

  Edwin H. Friedman
  • People
  • Communication
  • Message

• We have to start spreading that news - that real men change poopy diapers and coach the soccer team and let their daughters paint toenails all kinds of colours.

  

  Lynda Carter
  • Men
  • Real
  • Team

• I've got too much respect for stand-ups to call myself one.

  

  Johnny Vegas
  • Respect

• The clock ticked with empty urgency, as though trying to catch up with the time. In the street a siren howled.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Trying

• When I entered Bollywood, I didn't have any advantage over anyone. I didn't know how to act, I was not from the industry, I didn't know the language, and I didn't know how to dance. So, whatever films I was getting, I was just taking them up.

  Jacqueline Fernandez
  • Up
  • Dance

• I have my diehard R&B fans on one side of the spectrum and my diehard pop and dance fans on the other side of the spectrum.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Dance