Ne-Yo (Shaffer Chimere Smith) Quotes

I feel, as an artist, that we don't do enough to appreciate our fans. We are in this position because of the fans, and it's really a blessing.

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• The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Time
  • History
  • New

• I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.

  

  B. Kevin Turner
  • Real
  • Love
  • Nature

• I don't really go out at all.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Really
  • Go
  • Out

• I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Age
  • Political
  • Kind

• I definitely think that myself and Sam will help the Timberwolves.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Help
  • Think
  • Myself

• Oh, I'm quite the impulse buyer. Most of what I buy is stuff for my Jeep, 'cause it breaks down a lot.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Down
  • Most
  • Oh

• It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Science
  • Reason
  • Authority

• Most of the time, songs that I write end up being finished in 30 minutes or less.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • End

• Science fiction has its own history, its own legacy of what's been done, what's been superseded, what's so much part of the furniture it's practically part of the fabric now, what's become no more than a joke... and so on. It's just plain foolish, as well as comically arrogant, to ignore all this, to fail to do the most basic research.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Done
  • History
  • Science

• Family hang-outs can go very late into the night and involve lots of music.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Music
  • Family
  • Night

• I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Think
  • Reason
  • Will

• Muslim moderates, wherever they are, must be given every tool necessary to win a war of ideas with their co-religionists. Otherwise, we will have to win some very terrible wars in the future.

  

  Sam Harris
  • War
  • Future
  • Win

• It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Mean

• I wish that the adults who are 'in power' cared more about what their children read. Books are incredibly powerful when we are young - the books I read as a child have stayed with me my entire life - and yet, the people who write about books, for the most part, completely ignore children's literature.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• If you ever watch police chases on, like, helicopter cams, they very quickly become nightmarish when you start to see the police coming in from the edge of the frame. I always find that terrifying.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Start
  • Police
  • Edge

• A little-appreciated downside of the technology revolution is that, mainly without thinking about it, we have given up 'locational privacy.'

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Technology

• A lot of old guys in movies are like cowboys - they talk like cowboys and they dress like cowboys.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Movies
  • Old
  • Dress

• I'm always inspired when there's a robustness to the material in front of me.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Always
  • Inspired
  • Material

• I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Streets
  • Grind
  • Sit

• I tried to avoid anything that caused me frustration or grief or duress. I played FarmVille and procrastinated like all teenagers.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Grief
  • Frustration

• Let the blue sky overhead, The green earth on which ye tread, All that must eternal be Witness the solemnity.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Earth
  • Sky
  • Green

• The 'niche' effect of charter schools guarantees a swift and vicious deepening of class and racial separation.

  

  Jonathan Kozol

• I feel, as an artist, that we don't do enough to appreciate our fans. We are in this position because of the fans, and it's really a blessing.

  

  Ne-Yo