Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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In my opinion - in Georgia, there's a town called Lula. And Lula, Georgia, has the best peaches.
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But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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Ever since Two Daughters I've been composing my own music.
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When the switch fell I could feel it upon my flesh; when it welted and ridged it was my blood that ran, and I would think with each blow of the switch: Now you are aware of me! Now I am something in your secret and selfish life, who have marked your blood with my own for ever and ever.
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I think culture is where things change in us deeply. But right now, I think that people are very traumatised. They are very scared. Having grown up in a house with a perpetrator who was violent every day and terrorising every day, I feel like that this country is suddenly very much like the house and the family I grew up in. Every day we are glued to our phones, glued to our television; "What is this psychopath going to do next? How will he embarrass us? Who will he bully or hurt or humiliate today? It's so easy to get locked into a syndrome where the perpetrator is ruling your life.
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You need to cultivate your passion and crystallize your vision. If you don't know where you're going, how are you going to plan a road-map for how to get there?
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We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. Who wants to stay the damn same all their life?
