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
  • Interesting
  • Energy
  • 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

• I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Life
  • Live
  • Love

• A lot of the vibe in London is being sucked dry because of the economic situation. It's very expensive, and it gives you nothing back. New York still feels like there's stuff going on. People are struggling to create art. There's still a vibe.

  

  Finn Jones
  • People
  • Art
  • New York

• When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Campaign
  • Trials
  • Yes

• The thing is, when we do fight scenes, when we kill people in the movies, they bring in experts to choreograph it bit by bit, because you can't really kill someone, and you don't want to really hurt them.

  

  Annabella Sciorra
  • People
  • Hurt

• One of my top priorities in Congress is creating jobs and promoting a growing economy that raises the standard of living for all Americans.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Growing

• 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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  • Interesting
  • Person