Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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No one should be left to suffer alone.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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Carefully calculate the potential size of your market to make sure you can grow. Before starting Mint, I knew that there were about 20 million people who had purchased 'Quicken' or 'Microsoft Money' over the years, and 80 million people using online banking in the U.S. alone.
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When you're acting, it should be the most important thing that's going on. But when you're not, leave it alone.
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The things that drive me are poverty, and pain, and knowing that I don't want to end up being alone and I want to do something with my life and I want the name Dobson to remain in everyone's heads. Basically, just to rock and be the best performer I can be, and be true, and be real, and give people the real Fefe, nothing fake, all real.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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I write romance because I love to read romance.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I'm the type of person who doesn't want to sit alone in a restaurant or bar.
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I think I would like to write screenplays, books, really anything.
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No one is good but God alone. What is good is therefore divine, what is divine is therefore good.
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I myself am also a small investor in Slack, and one can count four to five IM platforms that were launched by Skype alumni alone.
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Growing up in Georgia in the southeastern United States, I was always reading and always kept to myself. I never felt isolated, though; I just liked being alone.
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I don't think of myself as Scottish or lesbian when I sit down and write. I am glad I have broken out of that limited audience.
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I've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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I like amateur things.
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I grew up in society when lots of things were hidden, and they were not hidden just one way, but it was very complicated.
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True love in Mexico isn't between lovers; it's between a parent and a child. Mexico is a very intense culture of sons adoring their mothers, and this is why I claim that Mexican culture is matriarchal. Because the one constant, faithful, inviolable, holy love of loves - the love of your life - is not your wife or your lover; it's your mother.
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If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.
