Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of Divine Providence has conducted our common country.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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One of the dreams of Zionism was to be a bridge. Instead, we are creating exclusion between the East and the West instead of creating bridges; we are contributing to the conflict between East and West by our stupid desire to have more.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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Taste is one of the five senses, and the man who tells us with priggish pride that he does not care what he eats is merely boasting of his sad deficiency: he might as well be proud of being deaf or blind, or, owing to a perpetual cold in the head, of being devoid of the sense of smell.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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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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Definitely, I think I fulfill a very funny Indian stereotype because I love technology. It's something I've always been interested in.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.
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I am ashamed to run against a lady. It's demeaning, very degrading. I have always refused to argue with a lady.
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When you are grateful - when you can see what you have - you unlock blessings to flow in your life.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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We set out to change the world.
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The past is a stronger influence in the South. But I think everywhere you have this sense that the world changes faster than you can accommodate yourself to. Looking back and seeing how you got where you are is a useful way to combat disorientation.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.
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Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
