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 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've stood my ground in life, alone, even against overwhelming forces with the might and money to crush me.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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You write how you write, wherever you write.
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I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
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Who can worry about a career? Have a life.
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I always tell people there's some kind of wall that you have to break through to see the beauty of L.A. The first few times I came here, I was like, 'I don't know about this place.' Then one day, it just totally flipped for me. It was crazy.
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Egypt is the oldest, largest and most important Arab country in the region. What happens there affects them all.
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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.
