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.
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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.
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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.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I'm not very good at being domesticated. I've tried. The domestic life I find claustrophobic - the rituals and habits and patterns.
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We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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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.
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You know, I hate to sound self-involved, but I feel like I haven't peaked yet.
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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.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
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Statistics do not convey emotion. They shock us for a minute or two, and then we click again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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Prestige is the shadow of money and power.
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I was working all the time I was in college. I was working so much that I could hardly do my college work.
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Listening to all these different musical genres from all over the world and listening to my father's record collection, the Irish folk influences from home. Of course they're all in there somewhere hiding within the lyrics and melodies. But rap music was the biggest influence on my way of writing and my performing.
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My imperative is to seek every moment and to live so God is in control.
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I wouldn't go so far as to make 'You Don't Own Me' a tango or 'It's My Party' a hip-hop thing. Believe me, those things have been suggested to me. But I thought if I could stay true to the song, the arrangements would work. I'm really enjoying singing them.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead.
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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.
