Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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I was always a real athletic kid. Then when I got older, I just figured it was part of life to keep training.
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I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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My father led by example. He wasn't much of a talker - he walked life.
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The best lesson I was given is that all of life teaches, especially if we have that expectation.
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I don't like celebrities; I don't hang out with them; I don't relate to that life.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I love life and nothing intimidates me anymore.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life.
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Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society.
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There's more to life than cheek bones.
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Success is a completely abstract thing - it has no bearing on daily life, family matters, the matter of artistic creation, but it can affect grace, and if I lose that, I really have gained nothing from success.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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The second you are handed a newborn it is yours. It doesn't matter what body it came out of. I've never felt more strongly about anything in my life.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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Health care's not about insurance! Health care's about getting treatment.
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Sometimes the only way you could look at a person, and love them exactly the way you did before is to look at them with Brand New Eyes.
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Changes in our aesthetic tastes have no value or meaning in and of themselves; what has value and meaning is the idea of change itself. Or, better stated: not change in and of itself, but change as an agent or inspiration of modern creations.
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We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
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I'm committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I've also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
