Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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Sofia Coppola is wonderful, and I'd love to work with her.
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All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.
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When you start to think about politicians, you've got to realize these are strange creatures. Other than the fact that they can't tell directions, and they have very strange breeding habits, how do you actually work with these things?
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It is obvious that the monetary union among 17 very different European countries does not work. As an economist, I know that the Eurozone is not an optimum currency area, as defined in economic theory.
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I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
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The key is that I'm trying to keep growing and trying to keep learning and deepen my connection in every way, in my life, in my work. That's what I do when I look at a role.
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
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The family teaches us about the importance of knowledge, education, hard work and effort. It teaches us about enjoying ourselves, having fun, keeping fit and healthy.
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I learned that fighting on the chess board could also have an impact on the political climate in the country.
Garry Kasparov -
My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.
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Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.
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I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.
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Making $30,000 on my first business deal was exciting, but not as exciting as the sudden knowledge that I did not have to work for anyone again.
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We must fight terrorism as if there's no peace process and work to achieve peace as if there's no terror.
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
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The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society.
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I work with the Humane Society a lot and have three rescue cats.
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Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
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Before leaving camp in 1902 we were already at work on the general design of a new machine which we proposed to propel with a motor.
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Well, I think most people understand that there's a big difference between who you are and who, you know, you play.
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
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Gay marriage should be legalized in america because gay men are the only men who want to be married.
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Some of the greatest artists did their best work when they got political.
