Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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I grew up in Cyprus and Egypt, these fantastic places I remember fondly.
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I didn't want to give up my Illinois driver's license and was unaware that was a crime. It is, by the way, in the state of California. Lesson learned. I technically broke a law, so technically I deserve whatever I get.
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I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.
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I'm waiting for them to make 'Thundercats'. I would love to be Cheetara.
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If I had to do it all over, I'd be more secluded about it.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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My priority is to take care of my daughter and my family.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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Each book tends to have its own identity rather than the author's. It speaks from itself rather than you. Each book is unlike the others because you are not bringing the same voice to every book. I think that keeps you alive as a writer.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Everybody believes that capital punishment is wrong, but when they look at certain cases, they're quick to say, 'Put them to death,' or scream 'capital punishment.'
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Now, I don't know whether a film can change the world, but I know that it starts - I know the power of it - I know that it starts people thinking about how to change the world.
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I tend to worry about the minutiae of life. But living in the mountains of Idaho and having retreated from fame, I am more in tune with life.
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Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.
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It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
