Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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In a family of all girls, I was always the 'boy' in my mind - the protector, the masculine one. No one would ever have to worry about me.
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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The question of modernization is central to disturbances in the Middle East and in Africa. Everyone is after modernization, no matter where they come from. But you have to be careful about it, and more importantly, you have to have sense about it.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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The secret of being a great actor is a love of food.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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I googled 'Gabby Douglas,' and all these things popped up like 'Gabby Douglas makes history!' And 'She's the champion!'
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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Whereupon, at the tender age of thirteen, I set upon the path of playing nothing but hookers.
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If I was the type of person who had tennis, tennis, tennis all the time and I went to bed and ended up dreaming about tennis, I would go nuts.
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I have done a lot of work for affordable housing, rental housing. I understand the rap on me and other liberals is, oh, we push poor people into homeownership. And it's exactly the opposite of the case. We were trying to prevent those kinds of bad loans.
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Number one, from a tackling standpoint, we teach strike zone hits, and we want to hit absolutely as hard as we can in that strike zone, and that's absolutely what we call a batter in the batters box from the chest all the way down to the knees.
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Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
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You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.
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Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while... you don't do things right once in a while... you do them right all the time. Winning is habit.
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Love never doubts or suffers or cries. Love shows no fear, love tells no lies.
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I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.
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I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
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Ein armer wohlthätiger Mensch kann sich manchmal reich fühlen, ein geiziger Krösus nie.
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Failure isn't an option. I've erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can't fail.
