Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.

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• I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • People
  • Time
  • Different

• I wouldn't wish overnight success on anyone. You have no real friends. Everyone works endless hours at different studios, so far apart. Even on your own lot, relationships were formal and often competitive.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Different
  • Real
  • Friends

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Real
  • Interesting
  • Thought

• Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Different
  • Country
  • Real

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• Most of my early records were not cohesive at all, just collections of demos recorded in different years. 'Odelay' was the first time I actually got to go in the studio and record a piece of music in a continuous linear fashion, although that was written over a year.

  

  Beck
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Different
  • Eyes
  • Honor

• I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Book

• Every single time you make a merger, somebody is losing his identity. And saying something different is just rubbish.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Time
  • Different
  • Single

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • High
  • Quality
  • Present

• I think if I was going to be someone for a day, I would want to be a performer, someone big, like Rihanna. I'd want to feel the energy of being on stage. I've always found that very interesting.

  

  Hailey Bieber
  • Energy
  • Interesting
  • Day

• Any quality player can adjust well to the different demands. It is like a good tennis player who is expected to adjust to the clay at the French Open, the grass at Wimbledon, the hard courts of the U.S. and the heat of the Australian Open. A professional is expected to do all that.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Different
  • Quality

• I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Best
  • Person
  • Feel

• I love to work in all sorts of different situations.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Different
  • Love

• I am an Armani and a Dolce & Gabbana kind of a person.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Person
  • Armani
  • Dolce & Gabbana

• Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Political
  • Person
  • Wants

• Just about the worst thing an artist can do is to try and be a nice person.

  

  Amanda Craig
  • Nice
  • Artist
  • Person

• I have a phenomenal team behind me who have helped get me here and I, along with them, will now put everything we can into the final few weeks of preparations before the Olympic Games, where I am aiming to race well, work well through the rounds, post good times and maybe even a personal best time on the biggest stage of them all.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The stuff I write about doesn't, like, necessarily leave people feeling warm and fuzzy. I'm writing in a territory that's, like, contested and full of prickliness. And I find that people project their problems onto me or something.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
  • People
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Women
  • Business

• Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.

  

  Katherine Dunham
  • World
  • Blow
  • Strength

• All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.

  

  Alicia Keys
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  • Person