Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.
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One minute, it seemed I had more movie offers than I could handle; the next – no one wanted me.
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My own tastes happen to be in tune with what the public wants. I think that's the reason my batting average is so high, not because I've discovered some brilliant formula.
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I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
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What is most amusing and can happen only in India is that the most posh and big households that I've seen in Mumbai, the 'big city', will have their balconies and windows festooned with rows of baniyans and tauliyas hanging on them.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I'm not trying to be the next Dave Grohl or Phil Collins.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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Bad things happen sometimes.
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I don't burn any calories trying to be masculine; I just happen to be from that world.
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Prince and I happen to think alike.
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I happen to believe that there is an afterlife.
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The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.
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If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.
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I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.
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When you do bad things, bad things happen to you.
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I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.
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The secret is not to make a film that causes something like Virginia Tech to happen. The secret is to make a film that stops it happening.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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I'm incredibly hopeful - in many ways, still very naive. I think a lot of that has helped me. My sort of naivete has sort of gotten me in trouble at times, but I haven't stopped myself from doing things.
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The safety-obsessed church lacks the inner dynamic to foster profound missional impact in our time.
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When I work with private clients now, one of the first places that I try to take them to is cultivating a sense of gratitude for their circumstances. And that's usually one of the first big steps in their healing.
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Success comes to those who are willing to launch toward their goals with no guarantees of success - and persist when there is every reason to give up.
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You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.
