Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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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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To succeed in business, to reach the top, an individual must know all it is possible to know about that business.
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I was a dancer first, which made me realize how much I loved performing.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I love the look of full brows that aren't perfectly done - eyebrows on fleek: that's the goal.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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I don't second-guess our playcalling or wanting to throw it. Honestly, we've got terrific guys. We know how to matchup. We know how to get open. That part of our game is so intact.
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I would love to have my own fashion line because I love sketching.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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Reputation is rarely proportioned to virtue.
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Twenty20 is cricket on speed. In an era of hectic lifestyles and falling attention spans, it gives spectators more drama and intensity in three hours that they would get from a whole-day match. And even though it is a heady cocktail of money, entertainment and media, at its core it is cricket.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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My children are unaffected by me being an actress because that's the way I like to keep it. I love the fact that they are so innocent about my star status. Sometimes, they come running to me and say, 'Mom, you are on TV.'
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It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.
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You are not just, "This is the way I play it every night." You are constantly finding new ways in, new attacks, "I want to try it this way. Maybe this scene is affecting that scene. I want to attack this scene differently."
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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
