Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

My initial attraction to 'Red Tails' was the opportunity to play a character that was not me. 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film, but I played myself there.

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• The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Live
  • Dreams
  • Vacation

• I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Book
  • Memory
  • Admire

• Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.

  

  Larry Elder
  • People
  • Work
  • Profit

• There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Liberal

• For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.

  

  Gal Gadot
  • Responsibility
  • Best
  • Story

• The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Art
  • Religious
  • Artist

• Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Insult
  • Okay
  • Principal

• I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Republican
  • Conservative

• There are times, especially on 'The Five,' where I've lost control for a moment. I always feel bad about it, but those always seem to be the times that people realize, if I'm mad about something, it must really matter.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Bad
  • Control

• The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.

  

  Harold Urey
  • Together
  • Science
  • Interesting

• I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • People
  • Food
  • Language

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• DURING the first years of my service in Dr. Flint's family, I was accustomed to share some indulgences with the children of my mistress.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Service

• I'm not the girl next door.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Girl
  • Door
  • Girl Next Door

• Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Present
  • Moment

• I've never been one for crushing on famous people.

  

  Daisy Ridley
  • People
  • Never
  • Famous

• I enrolled in an acting workshop and my first acting role was on the TV soap opera 'Melrose Place.'

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Acting
  • Place
  • Opera

• My family were very poor. I am one of nine siblings: two girls and seven boys. Only my brother and I play in Europe, and then three more work in Europe, and another plays in Tunisia. This family is a footballing family, but our lives have not always been good.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Good
  • Work
  • Family

• What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Society
  • Always
  • Down

• Yesterday, December seventh, 1941, a date which will live in infamy, the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. We will gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • God
  • Live
  • America

• There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbé de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • Great
  • Book

• Invite characters of surprising and moral character, or at least those who grapple with what is right or those who make decisions that shock.

  

  David Bergen
  • Character
  • Moral

• The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.

  

  Bernard DeVoto
  • Great
  • Earth

• My initial attraction to 'Red Tails' was the opportunity to play a character that was not me. 'Stomp the Yard' was a great film, but I played myself there.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Great
  • Character
  • Opportunity