Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
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I don't know how many people have ever seen the National Guard break in somewhere, but they mean business.
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I had parents in the business and they made sure that the art was the biggest concern.
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I'm trying to find the balance and do, like, 'Spanglish' music or some songs in Spanish and others in English or do a translation.
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When I look in the mirror, I don't see a person who's made the kind of impact that Mia Hamm made on the game. She's still my idol, the greatest player and the greatest teammate. She achieved so much in so many different ways. What she did for women's soccer can't be measured.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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Most experiences are either sensual or intellectual. Chamber music, played by a small group so the listener can follow what each player is doing, is both.
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I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.
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After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.
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Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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Growing up in eastern Turkey, I was not really involved with the family business - sheep and cow farming, yogurt and cheese making. But I think I learned from my father the unspoken business language or instincts that go back thousands of years.
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I'll be making music 'til the day I die. I've done all kinds of stuff, and more is coming.
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Once you're a chess player, you spend a lot of time thinking about the game and you can't get it completely out of your head.
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I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.
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I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.
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When you're in other time zones in other places, you don't get quite as much attention; you don't get quite as much visibility for the game, and you give up a lot to do it.
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There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
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Anybody who says they don't want to be seen on a show which has millions of people watching it at one time when they're in the business of selling records is a bit silly.
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I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.
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One of my dad's friends from the music industry came over to our house one time and heard me sing, and he said, 'She should audition for this role I have!' So I did! It was a movie called 'The Gospel,' which I did when I was five. That was when I was like, 'I want to do this acting thing!'
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It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.
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I often feel very guilty because of the time that I spend outside of my home and the little time that sometimes I have for my kids.
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When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
