Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.
Garry Kasparov
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I do not want to be a long-term CEO.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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With Facebook, you're not really allowed to be unhappy. Think about it: There's only a like button. Yes, you can be angry, but it's only lighthearted rage. On Reddit, perhaps because you can be anonymous, people are willing to be openly sad or angry. They are more honest.
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Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.
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I have never found in a human being loyalty that is comparable to a dog's loyalty.
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I think that music is a very difficult art form in which to be avant-garde. When we sit down to listen to a piece of music, I think our implicit hope is that we're going to find it beautiful, or at least emotional, on some level.
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Music in general and lately opera in particular fills my soul with hope and inspiration.
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For Christ, both God and man, must lay hold on us in order that there may be a union between Him and us.
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Sometimes I think of creativity or art as this well that we all draw from.
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If I can remain excited about the music that I'm giving you, then you're damn sure going to be excited about it.
