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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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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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'm a writer more than I am a talker.
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With a disaster like global warming, it's too late to worry about when it's looming except to figure out how to adapt to it.
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Building a baseball team is like building a house. You look for the best architects, the best builders - and then you let them do their jobs.
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If Christianity is a mere invention of man, and the Bible is not from God, how can infidels explain Jesus Christ? His existence in history they cannot deny. How is it that without force or bribery, without arms or money, He has made such an immensely deep mark on the world as He certainly has?
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There is no estimating the wit and wisdom concealed and latent in our lower fellow mortals until made manifest by profound experiences; for it is through suffering that dogs as well as saints are developed and made perfect.
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One thing, however, I must premise, that without the assistance of natural capacity, rules and precepts are of no efficacy.
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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.
