Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

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• For women in, say, Alabama, 'feminism' is a dirty word. They would never march in the streets. But although they don't think of themselves as the beneficiaries of feminism, they are.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Women
  • Think
  • Dirty

• Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Success
  • Me
  • Eating

• I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.

  

  Frances Fisher
  • Doing
  • Start
  • Television

• I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Think
  • Me
  • Talent

• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.

  

  Jack Ma
  • People
  • Up
  • Economy

• Contrary to rumor, sometimes I can be quite a laugh.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Sometimes
  • Laugh
  • I Can

• You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Politics

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• I don't want to do anything like Can't Hardly Wait, I don't want to do anything like Scream. I saw all those movies, and they were good, but they're just not what I want to do.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Good
  • Want
  • Movies

• The question for immigration reform is not if we'll get it done, it's when we'll get it done. It's going to get done.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Done
  • Question
  • Immigration

• With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • People
  • Music
  • Modeling

• For whatever be the knowledge which we are able to obtain of God, either by perception or reflection, we must of necessity believe that He is by many degrees far better than what we perceive Him to be.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Believe
  • Knowledge

• Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Up
  • Job
  • Dream

• I was gonna go broke if I didn't get things turned around real fast.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Real
  • Go
  • Fast

• Life is too short to be on a diet.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • Life
  • Life Is Too Short

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• Oh how I wish I could be as obsessive as Carrie from 'Homeland' when I'm writing a book! That would save me a lot of trouble during the revision process.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Wish

• I love body language.

  

  Anton Corbijn

• I know when something is going to work for me, and I feel when it's not, so I am going to carry that into the music.

  

  Brynn Cartelli
  • Work
  • Music

• I have a very strong tool in competitional enforcement: To do merger control, to look into cartels, misuse of dominant position - when member states hand out favors, for instance, in terms of tax breaks. But even though that's a strong tool, it cannot solve everything.

  

  Margrethe Vestager
  • Strong
  • Control
  • Hand

• Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • History
  • Wish

• I came from Bill Blass, where it was a well-oiled machine and if I said I needed a fabric, it was done. Now, I have to budget everything. I have to take on the role not just as a designer but a business. But I'm a glass half-full kind of guy.

  

  Prabal Gurung
  • Done
  • Business
  • Guy

• I'm the type of guy to put the water on the stove and then walk away and 10 seconds later be like, 'Come on, boil'!

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Guy
  • Water