Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
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Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
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Everyone knows that Apple crushed Microsoft in the mobile era. But it was exactly the opposite in the PC Wars of the 1980s and 1990s.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I have an office full of product from brands trying to be in videos and an inbox full of songs from artists, but at the end of the day if the artist doesn't support the brand or it doesn't make sense for the song, then it will never work. What we do is try to pair them up so that both sides are happy.
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If you're a good choice maker, you can choose the best emotional responses and choose the best new life paths, forward and upward.
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I like to go out and write. So I'll often go to a Starbucks or a local coffee bar, and I'll sit there and I'll write. I can write pretty much anywhere.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and gas lobbies.
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Seeing a catering truck feels like home.
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I played with Michy for Belgium. He is still young; he can finish and is very good. He just needs to adapt to English football, and he will. He is intelligent and a good player.
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
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'Stories grow by accretion. Tales accumulate - like dust. The longer the time lapse, the dustier the history - until it degenerates into fables.' Pelorat said, 'We historians are familiar with the process, Dom. There is a certain preference for the fable. The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull.'
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Some readers allow their prejudices to blind them. A good reader knows how to disregard inappropriate responses.
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When I'm writing a novel, one of the things I do is get big poster boards. They're actually canvases that artists use. And I keep all the characters' names on them. If you write a big novel, there's a lot of characters.
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The Bible makes it clear that Adam's sin affected the whole universe. This means that any aliens would also be affected by Adam's sin, but because they are not Adam's descendants, they can't have salvation.
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We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.
