Aaron Neville Quotes
I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
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I thought we had energy out there. I thought the guys were, they played good, they were excited. We were almost dynamite out there today. Just a flicker away from being dynamite.
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Good design should be honest.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I was kind of loathe to go on social media. I find the trolling unacceptable, and I never wanted to look like I was someone who would accept that.
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In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I never wanted a big wedding. I never wanted to wear a white dress or throw a bouquet.
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.
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Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
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I try to explore, in terms of the life I know best, those things which are common to all cultures.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
