Aaron Neville Quotes
So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
Quotes to Explore
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.
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After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
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I developed my training routine going into my senior year at Jackson State. I found this sandbank by the Pearl River near my hometown, Columbia, Miss. I laid out a course of 65 yards or so. Sixty-five yards on sand is like 120 on turf, but running on sand helps you make your cuts at full speed.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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What is wrong with George Bush? What is his problem?
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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In previous generations, there was purpose; you had to die, but there was God, and literature and culture would go on. Now, there is no God, and our species is imminently doomed, so there is no purpose. We get up, raise families, have bank accounts, fix our teeth and everything else. But really, there is utterly no purpose except to be alive.
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In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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Gorillas remind me of my father. He was a very big, physically strong man but also very sensitive.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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My strength as a TV writer was my total lack of interest in television.
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Unless you have a sense of values that's shared by people and turns them loose to do certain things on their own within those sets of values, the organization, whether a nation or corporation or citizen group, just doesn't work very well.
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So now I have a collection of poetry by Aaron Neville and I give it to people I want to share it with. I'd like to publish it someday.
