Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

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• Unfortunately, the people of Louisiana are not racists.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • Louisiana
  • Racists

• Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Forget

• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• I'm not a leading man.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Man
  • Leading
  • Leading Man

• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.'

  

  Daisy Donovan
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• All I know is stars and hits, you know what I mean? I don't just sign a guy because he has a hot record. I sign a guy because he's a star. He's a pillar of the community.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Guy
  • Community
  • Star

• Great amount of scientific research is there to show that health is better because transcendental meditation deals with consciousness, and consciousness is the basic value of all the physical expressions. The entire creation is the expression of consciousness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Great
  • Health
  • Value

• Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Society
  • Man

• Italy's assets are her style, her beauty, her creativity, her passion, her energy, her technology; and these will be core brand values of all our cars. Fiat as a company has a long way to go and a steep road ahead.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Technology

• My brother married young, and his is the best marriage I know.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Best
  • Marriage
  • Brother

• I like boys. I am not foreign; I was born and raised in Hickory County, Mo.

  

  Sally Rand
  • Boys
  • Raised
  • Foreign

• Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • People
  • Political
  • Independence

• My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.

  

  Laird Barron
  • Grandfather
  • Boxes
  • Failed

• If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Country
  • Political
  • Doing

• When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.

  

  Zong Qinghou
  • Think
  • You
  • Better

• All the cliches of glamorous sophistication have little appeal to me. Do I want to live the British version of 'Dynasty?' No thanks!

  

  Sade Adu
  • Live
  • Me
  • Thanks

• As long as I'm not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I'm glad I'm not an MC. I'm a motivational speaker. I'm not that rapper dude.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • People
  • Long
  • Die

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• Have no respect whatsoever for authority; forget who said it and instead look what he starts with, where he ends up, and ask yourself, "Is it reasonable?"

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Respect
  • Forget
  • Authority

• I am at work on a girl. It is quite simple a girl getting up on the edge of her bed and pulling on her stockings. The bed is whitish, and in addition there are white sheets, a white nightdress, a bedside table with a white cover, white curtains and a blue wall. as model for his painting 'Morning', 1884

  

  Edvard Munch
  • Up
  • Work
  • Girl

• We came out flat in the third quarter. I think we thought it was OK to play them a good half.

  

  Kenny Johnson
  • Good
  • Play
  • Half

• Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Moment
  • Happens
  • Focused