Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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I want to know who my client is. I see her on Instagram, but it's another thing to get to chat with her.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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What is it that love does to a woman? Without she only sleeps; with it alone, she lives.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I had an instinct to gravitate towards people who were smarter than I was, teachers that were nice people that were trying to do things in life that were constructive, and that's what I gravitated to instead of what I saw and what I was in.
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I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.
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Buyers decide in the first eight seconds of seeing a home if they're interested in buying it. Get out of your car, walk in their shoes and see what they see within the first eight seconds.
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The script is always the main preparation for me. Sometimes you have a period piece where you have to research around it, but if the writers have done their homework well enough, the information is all in the script.
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Donec eris sospes, multos numerabis amicos:tempora si fuerint nubila, solus eris.
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Atheism is just a way of clearing the space for better conversations.
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'No, but one can feel desperate at any age, don't you think? The young are eternally desperate,' he said frankly. 'And books, they offer one hope – that a whole universe might open up from between the covers, and falling into that universe, one is saved.
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Most people, at a crisis, feel more loyalty to their nation than to their class.
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The volume of credit depends upon three factors: the desire to borrow, the ability to lend and the desire to lend.
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Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
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Every Vacation movie didn't just make the studio money. They each made the studio a lot of money.
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When you are mute, you become a good listener - it's all one-way. You appreciate the written word. You appreciate the sound.
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Patriotism is an indispensable weapon in the defense of civilization against barbarism.
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I'm not a great writer of literature. I'm an entertainer.
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How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
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Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.
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Who are you talking to right now? Who is it you think you see? Do you know how much I make a year? I mean, even if I told you, you wouldn't believe it. Do you know what would happen if I suddenly decided to stop going into work? A business big enough that it could be listed on the NASDAQ goes belly up. Disappears. It ceases to exist, without me.
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Beyonce's the kind of artist where you're not gonna see it till it's right.
