Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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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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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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I studied at the Hebrew University Medical Faculty, graduated, and was an Israel Defense Forces' combat physician on a Navy ship.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I played ping-pong with Prince. That's pretty surreal. He gave me a lesson before we played; like, he's great. He's a master at it, so I took the free lesson.
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Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
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Economic life should be definancialised. We should learn not to use markets as storehouses of value: they do not harbour the certainties that normal citizens require. Citizens should experience anxiety about their own businesses (which they control), not their investments (which they do not control).
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I don't know if I'd ever want to show my college life in the films I make. I think I've passed that stage long ago.
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I don't have any problems in life, just situations.
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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.
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I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
