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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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At the moment of death, when the seed atom in the heart is ruptured, which contains all the experience of the past life in a panoramic picture, the spirit leaves its physical body, taking with it the finer bodies.
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Oftentimes we don't manifest what we want in our lives, because our energy is too focused on what others are doing in their lives. This lack of focus in our own life, dilutes our energy and we leak our creative potential into other people's soul experience.
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I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom.
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We cannot ask others to do what we have not done ourselves.
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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.
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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.
