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I think I can beat Usher on the dance floor. -- Chris Brown
My manager is definitely a mentor as well as Usher. -- Justin Bieber
Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down. -- Ciara
I'm not on Twitter, but I am on Instagram and follow Lena Dunham and Usher. -- Michelle Dockery
You can tell black artists are front and centre when Usher discovers and launches Justin Bieber. -- Dan Hill
I'm not that smart, but I'm smart enough to know that if Usher wants to help you, you let him. -- Blake Shelton
I run with music all the time. I cannot run without my iPod. I have everything. Teddy Pendergrass. Luther Van Dross. Michael Jackson. Outkast. If an Usher song comes on and it's fast, I go fast. -- Sugar Ray Leonard
A lot of people think I came out of nowhere. When you start as a songwriter, nobody knows who you are. I met the guy who wrote 'Yeah' by Usher, which was a huge smash, and nobody knew who he was. -- Meghan Trainor
I'm not gonna say that I hate it, because I really respect Usher and I was influenced by him. But so many people compare me to him, and I don't think it'll ever stop. I just want to be my own artist. -- Chris Brown
I'm universal. As much as I can get out a 'Firework' with Katy, I can get a 'Lil Freak' out with Usher. Or a 'Lay It Down' with Lloyd. I can get Caribbean as I did on 'Rio,' then go from there to working with No Doubt. -- Ester Dean
Musically, I actually grew up listening to country music as a kid, like George Strait, Alan Jackson... all those guys. So it was kind of weird crossing over from that to pop and R&B, but you know, I love Michael Jackson, Ne-Yo, Usher, R. Kelly, Drake, Boyz II Men. -- Austin Mahone
I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean. -- Usher
I would love to do a record with Usher. -- Sevyn Streeter
We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists. -- Tina Fey
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I listen to everything. My I-Pod's really diverse-from guitar instrumentals to Rascal Flatts to Usher. -- Orianthi
My God - it's a green child!" said the American. "What is this place - the House of Usher? -- Dodie Smith
So Mr.Bass why do you think you should become an Usher?" asked the interviewer.Chuck smiled. Because I'm Chuck Bass. -- Cecily von Ziegesar
I'm itching to see Usher & Shakira work their magic. And of course, Blake is so amazing! It was tough, but I went on my gut which was Adam. -- Judith Hill
I think Usher is a bonafide superstar because he's very honest in his songs, and people can relate to that, especially in the feelings and textures of his voice. He is one of the best. -- Diplo
My sound comes from my inspiration, which is people like Aretha and Jay Z and Kanye, as well as everyone from the Whitneys and Mariahs to Destiny's Child and Usher. They all inspired me growing up. -- Jess Glynne
A lot of R&B cats are doing a lot of auto-tune. Tyrese went back to the basics. I love classic soul music and Ginuwine. Ginuwine and Usher laid the foundation back in the '90s. There's no one doing that anymore. -- Leon Bridges
I didn't get paid for my first gig supporting Usher Raymond in the Temple in Tottenham when I was 17 or 18. I bugged the promoter to let me play and it went down a storm. And after that I got loads of gigs, which were paid. -- Lemar
The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best. -- Ray Bradbury
You got a handful of great guys - Ne-Yo, R. Kelly, Usher. You have a handful of great female artists. But for the most part the music world's changing and change is good. You have to make adjustments if you want to survive in that world. -- Nas
My parents and grandparents listened to bacheta heavy, the true bachata from back in the day - Juan Luis Guerra, Anthony Santos. I liked the genre, but I remember thinking, 'OK, enough of this.' I would sing Usher's 'U Remind Me' to the girls in school. -- Prince Royce
I'm coming from a Ginuwine and Usher background: slow and smooth songs. And that's why I really connected to Sam Cooke, because he was just very smooth. It's not like the James Brown types, which is all great stuff, but he was totally set apart from those guys. -- Leon Bridges
How do I define who Usher is? I'm still doing it - every day, every new opportunity, every stage, every interview, every other thing that I've done, every time that I've invested in anything that is all the definition of who I am. -- Usher
The unique instrument to eradicate poverty and usher in prosperity is our youth. -- N. R. Narayana Murthy
I was an usher at the Lyric Theatre Hammersmith. You had to watch whatever play they had on 40 times. -- Robert Webb
Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky. -- Rabindranath Tagore
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theatre, I didn't even know there was a show business! -- David Geffen
I love a song that will usher in the very presence of God. Then there's no Andrae; there's no fabulous band, there's no greatness of ours. I've had hundreds of concerts like that, and that's what I try to achieve. -- Andrae Crouch
I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase. -- Olivia Thirlby
Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during the football games. So we signed up and I went to many games in full Boy Scout uniform as an usher. -- Daniel J. Evans
Obama ran on a platform of unmitigated optimism - a promise to usher in a brighter day for America. But there could hardly be a greater contrast between his pledge and his performance in office, between his commitment to the nation and his current abandonment of all hope. -- David Limbaugh
There was a bidding war between Epic Records and Jive - now RCA - which was bittersweet. Just having labels bid over me was really cool, but I ended up going with Jive because it felt better over there, and they have my favorite artists like Usher, Chris Brown, and Justin Timberlake. -- Jacob Latimore
I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros. -- Liane Balaban
My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang. -- Maya Angelou
There was this wonderful trick of going to the theater with my parents and sitting in the audience under the watchful eye of an usher, and then these other people would come on the stage: They spoke differently and had different clothes and hair. Afterward, they would come back, and they were my parents again. It was magic. -- Tyne Daly
I actually ran into Justin Bieber when nobody knew him at the Kids' Choice Awards. He came up to me like, 'Mr. Crews, how you doing? I'm produced by Usher and I just wanted to introduce myself. My name is Justin Bieber,' and I just knew he was a good, nice kid. Next year, people are screaming and attacking him! -- Terry Crews
When I wrote for Jordan Knight, I was 17 or 18, they were pretty much the only songs I was writing. By the time people like Christina or Usher came around, I was able to know that I was writing for different points of view and people that might not want to say certain things. So you have to be considerate of whichever artist you're writing for. -- Robin Thicke
The purity of youth will usher in the Divine Wind. -- Takijiro Onishi
It is God's design to use reluctant servants to usher in glory. -- Dan B. Allender
A good marriage can usher you into paradise, a bad one into hell -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
Political convulsions, like geological upheavings usher in new epochs of the world's progress. -- Wendell Phillips
Sin will usher in the greatest and the saddest losses that can be upon our souls. -- Thomas Brooks
Becoming a junior usher at a black church was my entry into the wonder of worship. -- Isaiah Washington
I believe moderates will need to be driven out in order to usher in the progressive era. -- Barack Obama
Medicare will usher in federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have know it in this country. -- Ronald Reagan
With what infinite & unwearied expectation and proclamations the cocks usher in every dawn, as if there had never been one before. -- Henry David Thoreau
The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known. -- Leonard Ravenhill
I just needed a job. Before being hired as an usher at the CBS Theater, I didn't even know there was a show business. -- David Geffen
Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the time to spy on you... -- Louis-Ferdinand Celine
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them. -- Saint Augustine
Surrealism will usher you into death, which is a secret society. It will glove your hand, burying therein the profound M with which the word Memory begins. -- Andre Breton
President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice. -- Eric Bolling
Factions among yourselves; preferring such To offices and honors, as ne'er read The elements of saving policy; But deeply skilled in all the principles That usher to destruction. -- Philip Massinger
One smile in the morning can change your mood for the entire day. One hug in the evening can usher you into cheerful night dreams you will never regret! -- Israelmore Ayivor
As long as skies are blue, and fields are green Evening must usher night, night urge the morrow, Month follow month with woe, and year wake year to sorrow -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I really enjoy being the child's 'welcoming committee' and to help someone usher his or her spirit into the world in a very peaceful way is very effortless to me. -- Erykah Badu
When I was ten, I had a weird cinema party where I invited everybody from my street to come. I pretended I was an usher and tried to sell them all popcorn. -- Sophie McShera
Religious traditions are easy to lose sight of in today's marketing frenzy. Make sure you take time to gently usher your little ones into the rituals that have special meaning for you. -- Adam Mansbach
The lure of heady profits of the late 1990's spawned abuses and excesses. With strict enforcement and higher ethical standards, we must usher in a new era of integrity in corporate America. -- George W. Bush
Left-wing movements have tended to be unisex, and asexual in their imagery. Right-wing movements, however puritanical and repressive the realities they usher in, have an erotic surface. Certainly Nazism is "sexier" than communism. -- Susan Sontag
When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing. -- Mao Zedong

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