Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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How many inner resources one needs to tolerate a life of leisure without fatigue.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I generally have a brand of brief on every day.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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Committing unnecessary surgeries is very, very rare. And it's very wrong.
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I would put myself towards left of center.
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The checks and balances is a way to prevent government from either devolving into an autocratic tyranny or an autocratic mob mentality.
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I did like hanging out with all the rock'n'roll boys - it was fun but all those relationships didn't work out.
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Liberty is to faction what air is to fire, an aliment without which it instantly expires. But it could not be less folly to abolish liberty, which is essential to political life, because it nourishes faction, than it would be to wish the annihilation of air, which is essential to animal life, because it imparts to fire its destructive agency.
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The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
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It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.
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The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.
