Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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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 have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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To understand something, whether we are aware of it or not, depends on choosing a model. We get to understand what we see by comparing it with something else, something that we think we understand better. But what we compare it with turns out to have a huge influence on the outcome.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Demands for equal financing of sewers, streets, and garbage collection would make more sense than proposals for equal financing of the schools, since some plausible connection may be inferred between the amount of money expended, e.g., for roads, and the quality of service resulting to the taxpayer.
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I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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I was good at keeping my mother from crying.
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Malcolm X was the national spokesperson of the N.O.I., and he wasn't represented in their own newspaper for over a year.
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I know I can't go on forever – I'll probably stop when I reach 50 – but I love playing football. It's as simple as that.
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I acted before I sang. And I did The Cosby Show, and things like that. But the music kind of came first. And it was a part of my essence. So I knew that I would evolve into this world.
