Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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When I was in jail, I was a lot of people's favorite person. I practically ran the jail. I had more freedom than the police.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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I apologize profusely to those I have offended deeply a million times over.
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When I started to pick up the bass, it was purely by random chance.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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When I write a goal down - and I truly write them down - it becomes a part of me. That's a contract that I sign with myself to say, 'I don't care what happens - I'm going to stay on this path. I'm going to try and see this through; I'm going to give it my best shot, my best effort.'
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A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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A me non par che ben deciso,Né che ben giusto alcun giudicio cada,Ove prima non s'oda quanto nieghiLa parte o affermi, e sue ragioni alleghi.
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My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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Robert F. Kennedy used to say, 'Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not?'; that outlook has become a far too common and destructive approach to interpreting the law
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Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?
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Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.
