Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Is it not by love alone that we succeed in penetrating to the very essence of being?
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For me, my writing benefits from my experience.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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I was joking with someone about this the other day. They were like, 'You talk about Applebee's as if it was your ex.' I miss it; I miss setting up tables at 6 A.M.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Whenever I tell people I'm from Miami, they always ask me about the beach. But I can count on one hand the times I went there as a kid.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I just want to be a little more real. Maybe I'm a little bit darker than others.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I would never be comfortable with an edited name. I have never hidden the fact that I am of Indian origin.
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I am not saying do not give people equal health services but do not pretend that giving more money for diabetes or chronic diseases means you are going to deal with the origins of health inequalities.
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The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
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Employee engagement is an investment we make for the privilege of staying in business.
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I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
