Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The more you work and get known for something, sometimes things begin to narrow a bit, and your opportunities get more... specific.
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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New York is my home.
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I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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You should never ask, 'What would the readers like now?' Instead, you should ask, 'What would I like if I was a reader?' And then you must trust your own mind.
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The novel is about, for me, sustained and organized looking. I do think that people have a hunger for a sustained engagement, that concentration that the book can offer.
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For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
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I tell 'Hansel and Gretel' stories about heroic children who are lost in a world that seems friendly at first, and then isn't.
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'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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Sometimes when you're a songwriter, you kind of have this egotistic thing: you just want to write something that you love, and you don't care about if people like it or not, but personally, I want to write something that people can jive to.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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We just feel like history repeats itself. You ain't never going to see nothing brand new; you're only going to see when records are broken. And we're here to just set records and set trends and follow the footsteps that have been shown to us.
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
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When Pakistan was carved out of India's rib in 1947, it was assumed by some that Bollywood's Muslim stars would defect to the new state and thus boost the Lahore film industry. But Lollywood did not happen.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
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There's nobody on this earth who can tell you that what you're feeling is wrong. They can tell you it's different to what they're feeling.
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When I’m feeling lost, when I’m feeling weak, you know how to bring me back to what I really need- that little bit of wild that no one ever sees. When I’m on the edge of losing who I wanna be you know where to find me…
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Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.
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My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
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I have this vintage Harley-Davidson motorcycle jacket. When I put it on, it has this supercool feeling to it.
