Aaron Neville Quotes
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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We shred every day.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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So I was in America and I thought I'll stick around while I'm here and just see what happens. The next film I did was High Art, so I guess it started with a sort of vague idea but really just a fantasy.
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I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I eat next to nothing.
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It would be ridiculous for me to say anything negative regarding blacks having an equal opportunity on TV.
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The Fed's organization reflects a long-standing desire in American history to ensure that power over our nation's monetary policy and financial system is not concentrated in a few hands, whether in Washington or in high finance or in any single group or constituency.
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Relationships do not happen in abstraction. They need a place; they need a centre, even a home.
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I just try to keep it simple, not let too many outside things influence me.
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After I made my hit in 'Salome,' Universal sent me to New York so I could learn to be a proper movie star.
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The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
