Aaron Neville Quotes

I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

Aaron Neville

• God
• Money
• Song
• Singing

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.

  

  F. H. Bradley
  • Knowledge
  • Virtue
  • Self-knowledge

• I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Life
  • Good
  • Habits

• I think punditry serves no purpose.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Think
  • Purpose
  • I Think

• I want to see one of my products being taken by people across the world. I want to see them improving and leading a better life. It's like playing God.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.

  

  Q-Tip
  • You
  • Hate
  • Know

• We hear all around us to love ourselves, and one of the ways we can do that is to eat food that serves our body, but also for us to love the food we're eating.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Food
  • Body
  • Eating

• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Look
  • Down
  • Heights

• Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Value
  • Security
  • Geography

• Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Emotion
  • Again
  • Statistics

• I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Success

• It's hard to think of any tool, any instrument, any object in history with which so many developed so close a relationship so quickly as we have with our phones.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • History
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I believe myself to possess a most singular combination of qualities exactly fitted to make me pre-eminently a discoverer of the hidden realities of nature.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Myself

• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • World
  • Security

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• Prestige is the shadow of money and power.

  

  C. Wright Mills
  • Money
  • Power
  • Shadow

• I think every country has to recognize its competitive advantage and liberate its strengths to be a partner in global trade, and that's the only way you can survive and succeed.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Partner

• The commonest and cheapest sounds, as the barking of a dog, produce the same effect on fresh and healthy ears that the rarest music does. It depends on your appetite for sound. Just as a crust is sweeter to a healthy appetite than confectionery to a pampered or diseased one.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Music
  • Dog

• What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Wish

• It's a beautiful day, the sun is shining, I feel good, and no one's gonna stop me now.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • Day
  • Sunshine
  • I Feel Good

• I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • People
  • Men
  • Women

• Poor artist! You gave away part of your soul when you painted the picture which you are now trying to dispose of.

  

  Paul Gauguin
  • Trying
  • Soul
  • Artist

• I never really got paid for 'Tell It Like Is,' but I look back at it and say God knew what he was doing; he probably figured that if I had got money back in them days, I wouldn't be here now. That's okay. I'm here. And I'm still singing the song.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • God
  • Money
  • Song