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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While our military mission is narrowly focused on saving lives, we continue to pursue the broader goal of a Libya that belongs not to a dictator, but to its people.
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If I had to do it all over again, would I want my dad here? I would say no. Our world is in a better place because our father gave his life.
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The language can be different, but the emotional lives are the same no matter whether you're doing Shakespeare or Stoppard or something else... The emotional life is all the same.
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I suppose the most marked example of color as structure is in the Byzantine use of mosaic decoration that becomes architecture. The decoration of the interiors so related to the form that they fuse. In less elaborate interior design this is always the ideal approach to color - used not only as just color alone.
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I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.
