Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I think it's unfair to criticise someone for not being Welsh, but the smaller the nation, the more patriotic you seem to be.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.
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I'd prefer to be good, but I'm not always. I struggle.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
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No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I think a great starting point for a debate and discussion over a national consumption tax is, let's start with the Fair Tax, legislation that has been written up and, I think, signed up on by 80 congressmen and women.
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AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
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Earlier today Martha Stewart issued a statement saying 'I am innocent and will fight to clear my name.' Yeah, Martha then said 'I look forward to the day when people stop thinking I am guilty and get back to thinking I am cold and arrogant.'
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We can't begin to feed ourselves with a local-centric system if we lock up land in royal manor models.
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I like very straight comedy.
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With the first act of cruelty committed in the name of revolution, with the first murder, with the first purge and execution, we have lost the revolution.
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I'd rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I'm not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
