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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In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
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I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
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If a person is cold and rigid, he feels within himself as if he were in a grave. He is not living, he cannot enjoy this life for he cannot express himself and he cannot see the light and life outside. What keeps man from developing the heart quality? His exacting attitude. He wants to make a business of love. He says, 'If you will love me, I will love you.' As soon as a man measures and weighs his favors and his services and all that he does for one whom he loves, he ceases to know what love is. Love sees the beloved and nothing else.
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You don't know what will happen from one minute to the next.
