Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.

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• I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Up
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  • First

• I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Necessary

• If you can achieve winning a league championship, that, to me, is the full test of the team and management because it is over the full season and you have a lot of problems you have to overcome.

  

  Walter Smith
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• I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.

  

  Ori Gersht
  • Life
  • My Life
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• I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • World
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• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
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• San Francisco, coolest place ever.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Place
  • Ever
  • San Francisco

• Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Yourself

• The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • God
  • Faith
  • Sister

• Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Me
  • Surprise
  • Involved

• A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Plan
  • Push

• Competition on anything is good, because it makes everybody better.

  

  Eddy Cue
  • Good
  • Better
  • Competition

• The day I leave Paris is the day I go down a level or quit football.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Day
  • Football
  • Paris

• Never eat spinach just before going on the air.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Never
  • Air
  • Before

• My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Family
  • Learning
  • Grandmother

• Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Children
  • You
  • Talk

• Sometimes you surf well and still don't win. It happens to everyone. You learn that one big score doesn't mean much if you don't have a backup. I guess every rookie learns that as time goes by. I took some big lessons from my losses.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Time
  • Learn
  • Win

• Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • World
  • Best
  • Beer

• Chef's choice is my favorite. I'm super adventurous.

  

  Neil Patrick Harris

• I think with world building, it's important to create a sense of culture even if it is just a fantasy, and the best way to do that is to look at a real human culture and see what makes it cohesive.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • World
  • Important
  • Real

• I affirm, therefore, that our present position is one of apostasy; and to give the ballot to the negro will be no innovation, but a return to the old paths, a restoration of that spirit of liberty to which the sufferings and sacrifices of the Revolution gave birth.

  

  James A. Garfield
  • Present
  • Revolution
  • Innovation

• If it comes out of Congress, I think it has traction in America.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • America

• Ninety-nine percent of my life I was lied to I just found out my mom does more dope than I do

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • Mom
  • Dope
  • Lied

• Back in the day, Motown was on the pulse of young America. It wasn't about just dope contemporary. It was pop, it was R&B, it was all of that.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • America
  • Dope