Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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My cousin in Louisiana started a small company with a little savings, renovating houses. A single mom, she saved enough to buy a home and provide child care for her son. When the economy went belly up, so did her company. She was forced to sell her home and move in with her parents.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I was made fun of at a young age. I would fight a lot in the streets, and it has a lot to do with the way I am today. It helped my development as a fighter, but what can I say?
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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When's the last time you used duct tape on a duct?
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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Sheryl's heroes are in black and white photos, and so are mine.
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Justice, I think, is the tolerable accomodation of the conflicting interests of society, and I don't believe there is any royal road to attain such accomodations concretely.
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'Anita,' he asked, 'are there really werewolves?''Yes,' she told him. 'Your werewolves are down there.'And that was right, he thought. The darkness of the mind, the bleakness of the thought, the shallowness of purpose. These were the werewolves of the world.
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The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.
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When I got to college, acting suddenly seemed like a very risky proposition and all my friends were going to law school or med school or Wall Street.
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Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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People think stars never have any problems or cares. That's bull. Why would we show any more than one mask to the public. There's a whole lotta things I've done that I don't want to think about. But I bring it all right out when I need it for a role.
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The word knight, which originally meant boy or servant, was particularly applied to a young man after he was admitted to the privilege of bearing arms.
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Prayer keeps me centered.
