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.
Gabriel Iglesias
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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.
Orison Swett Marden
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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.
Daley Thompson
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
Mae West
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Christianity, Judaism and Islam all share a gospel, loosely, and it's important that we all realize that.
Dan Brown
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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.
Gale Norton
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These greens are so fast I have to hold my putter over the ball and hit it with the shadow.
Sam Snead
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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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.
Warren Christopher
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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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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.
Gabrielle Union
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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.
Venus Williams
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The first job of a writer is to be honest.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Karen Joy Fowler
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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.
Madchen Amick
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Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
W. Somerset Maugham
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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.
Bear Grylls
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There's a tendency for designers to embellish the size of their business. I never lie.
Carolina Herrera
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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.
James Lovelock
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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.
Gabriel Byrne
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I grew up in Louisiana. We have red beans and rice, and there's a Popeye's on every corner.
Daniel Cormier
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For me, my favorite trends of summer are lots of color, wedges, rompers and bright lipstick.
Janel Parrish
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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.
Aaron Neville