Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned.
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
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I always love the quirky stuff, which is why I love 'Childrens Hospital.' That really pushes the envelope of comedy.
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A good lie detector doesn't jump to conclusions but tries to understand the person across the table, her personality, and her motivations. Your goal as a lie spotter isn't to point the finger and say, 'You're lying' - your goal is to get to the truth.
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He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I didn't come from any money, but even when I was on 'Big Love' - people think you're on a series and you're making bank.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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What power can poverty have over a home where loving hearts are beating with a consciousness of untold riches of the head and heart?
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I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.
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Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force.
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The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.
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As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it.
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There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.
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There's a reason why anger, fear, and hatred are paths to the dark side: they all spring from a single source - the same source as a certain flavor of love. A dangerously sweet, addictive flavor.
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Just beyond the ticket booth Father had painted on a wall in bright red letters the question: DO YOU KNOW WHICH IS THE MOST DANGEROUS ANIMAL IN THE ZOO? An arrow pointed to a small curtain. There were so many eager, curious hands that pulled at the curtain that we had to replace it regularly. Behind it was a mirror.
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An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned.
