Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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Wes Anderson deserves an award for sheer persistence of vision.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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Chris Jericho is a great guy. He's beyond hysterical. He's good people. They're really good. Chris wanted me to throw down a solo. He sent it to me and I knocked it out.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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I'm not really a fan of people who think they're better than others. There's no reason to act that way. I couldn't even stand to yell at someone if they bumped right into me.
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We need to become good citizens in the global village, instead of competing. What are we competing for - to drive more cars, eat more steaks? That will destroy the world.
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From the time of independences until the end of the Cold War, in spite of the participation of a considerable number of African states in the non-aligned movement, everyone in fact chose to align with one or another of the two major blocks.
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When I'm filming, it's in the contract - 'No kiteboarding' - ha ha.
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Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.
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Sunday night is curry night. I always order a spinach paneer and a chicken tikka. There's usually something good on TV like 'Mr Selfridge' or 'Downton Abbey,' so I'll watch them before I have to think about blowdrying my hair and all the other boring stuff us girls have to do!
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Most fatal, most hateful of all things is bullying.... Sensual bullying of course is fairly easily detected. What is more dangerous is ideal bullying. Bullying people into what is ideally good for them.
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I think I was very young when I became interested in fashion.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.
