Aaron Neville Quotes
People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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I work in the most non-Communist job. I work for 'Martha Stewart Living.'
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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My parents would definitely be my childhood heroes.
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state for your old Lover to be in! - No more tender whisperings! Imagine sweet confessions to be made through an ear trumpet!
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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Teasing and a sense of humor, if you can develop that in your kids, and if you can exercise it with the kids, just makes for a pleasanter atmosphere.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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In the U.K. there is still work to be done, particularly in schools, stopping the homophobic bullies in the playground and introducing unbiased discussion on gay issues in the classroom.
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People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
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Sarcasm all around the world is always against right wing and against people in power. That's the definition of political sarcasm.
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I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
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People are living a lot longer these days and not preparing for it. I'm in the gym and, you know, using my voice.
