Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

Alicia Keys

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• World
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• Instinct

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• I'm not Cinderella.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Cinderella

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.

  

  Barbara Kruger
  • Good
  • Thought
  • Looking

• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Girl
  • Sexy
  • Train

• In 15 years we'll have all the sequence, a list of the genes everyone has in common and those that differ among people. We know only something like a tenth of 1 percent of the sequence at the moment.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • People
  • Know
  • Moment

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Respect
  • Alone
  • Singing

• I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • People
  • Opportunities
  • Hood

• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Thinking
  • Man
  • Pride

• In his enigmatic and cunning story 'The Crown of Feathers,' Isaac Bashevis Singer refuses to produce uncontradictory evidence of God's will but rather mixes all signals, jams the evidence, stalls every conclusion.

  

  Edmund White
  • God
  • Story
  • Feathers

• If money was being invented now, it wouldn't be designed to look like cash or credit cards. It would look more like Bitcoin.

  

  Adam Draper
  • Money
  • Credit
  • Bitcoin

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• A democracy thrives on diversity. Tyranny oppresses it.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Democracy
  • Diversity

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Men
  • Weird
  • Baseball

• When the kid goes to bed, you get a little bit of time for yourself and maybe your partner, so being delayed in that departure can be particularly frustrating.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Time
  • Yourself
  • Partner

• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Lose
  • View

• I think we all attract troublemakers; I don't think it's particularly about anyone. I had it actually as an album title, and I thought it would be really cool to write a song about a girl that's a bit of troublemaker.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Song
  • Girl
  • Cool

• Those Laurel Canyon days were great. I have a real fondness for that era, 'til about '68. Musically, it was wonderful, and there was this great innocence, an idyllic view of the world. After that, everything got a little... edgy.

  

  Chris Hillman The Byrds
  • World
  • Great
  • Real

• Records, radio, television, movies, magazines-all are monopolized by the money managers who are guided by one ethic, the words wealth and power.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Money
  • Wealth
  • Records

• I like to be quiet, and let people find me rather than having to shout at them.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Me
  • Find

• A company's best advantage should be a quality product offered at the right price. That fair competition is what drives innovation.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Quality
  • Competition
  • Innovation

• The most beautiful thing in the world is my grandmother's apple pie.

  

  Benny Cassette
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Grandmother

• I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Direction