Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.
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We have groups that do that, but I can't rap with the mentality of an 18 year old when I'm in my 30's.
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I write in a small office at home.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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I was very good in math and physics. In the Soviet time, we had a lot of Olympic-style competitions for different disciplines: I was always winning in my region.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
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Dress codes and gestures and attitudes have always inspired me, as has youth culture in general, although now I question it more. If you analyze youth cultures over history, there has always been something strict about them - you have to be like this or like that.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.
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We, as artists, we have the right to express ourselves. That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.
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I think there's a karmic purpose that souls make before they decide to come into people's bodies and become someone's parent, or become someone's child. Maybe my dad disappearing was his way of giving me material with which to work, or a predisposition to feel heightened emotions.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.
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I don't look at Hollywood as a big break. Indian film stands on its own.
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The fact remains that secularism is inherent in the Indian system, in the Indian ethos and culture. India cannot but be secular.
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Celebrations are great fun: bunting and this and that and the other.
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It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are.
