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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.

Aaron Neville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: musician
Nationality: american
Birth: January 24, 1941

Topics

Football Red Me Summer Skin Play

I had a mild case of polio - not enough to put me in an iron lung, but enough to keep me bedridden for weeks. As I came out of it, my mom wanted to do something for me. She realized that, growing up in the city, I'd missed out on a lot of nature.

Robert Redford

Nature City Me Mom Growing Up She

He wanted to play accordion on something of mine and I said you can play accordion, but I want you to play piano and organ on some stuff. He came over a couple times a week for two weeks and gave me therapy as to whether I should do The Thorns or not.

Matthew Sweet

Me Week You Play Said Want

Reproductive rights are not just a women's issue.

Tony Goldwyn

Women Rights Just Reproductive Issue

Being an only child, you just have a lot of time on your hands, figuring things out. Just doing music, man - music just came to me.

Luke James

Music Time Man Child Me Doing

You might not feel good, and you might not want to practice, but you still go out there and practice as hard as you can.

Logan Mankins

Good Practice Feel Good Feel You Go

I was not popular in school, and I was definitely not a ladies' man. And I had a very painful adolescence, because it was all very strange to me. It wasn't like I got beat up, but the humiliation and isolation, and the existential 'God, I exist, and nobody cares' of being a teenager were extremely pronounced for me.

Joss Whedon

God Man School Me Isolation Nobody

When Democrats concede the idea that some voters are not our voters, we shouldn't be surprised when those voters agree.

Jason Kander

Democrats Agree Idea Surprised Some

Take everything you can from what people say. Keep going and stick to your instincts. And what your soul tells you to do, use that.

Jon Pardi

Keep Going Soul People You Say Take

A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime.

Chris Christie

Family Health Teacher Vision Medical

People have black skin, people have brown skin. I have both.

Winnie Harlow

People Black Skin Brown Both

I got into plays in high school then I ended up going to college for it.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

School College High School High Up

I never had posters on my walls, and I didn't have any icons, either. I come from a small village in Wirral, and my family didn't watch TV. I wasn't exposed to people with icon status. David Bowie popped up, but I had already shaved my eyebrows off by the time I saw his.

Pete Burns

Family Time Walls People Small Up