Aaron Neville Quotes
We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
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I'm always very happy to talk to people. I relate to people, and the guy on stage is very much the guy that's off stage. People know when it's fake.
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When we begin to desire a thing, to yearn for it with all our hearts, we begin to establish relationship with it in proportion to the strength and persistency of our longing and intelligent effort to realize it.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
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Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
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The process of writing a book is so removed in my mind from the process of publishing it that I often forget for great stretches that I eventually hope to do the latter.
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I am lucky enough to be married to a personal trainer. He's able to whip me into shape pretty quickly.
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.
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There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
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Life has to be a planetary phenomenon. You could no more have a partially occupied planet than you could half a cat or half a dog.
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I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
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For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick.
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We used to play football on the levee, with no shirts on in the summer - August in New Orleans - and my skin would turn red. They'd call me Redskin, Red Apache, then it turned around to Apache Red.
