Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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It is not true that I dictate what should be done. There is a dialogue.
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Will and Tommy Lee are the only actors I've ever worked with where neither of them want to say any lines.
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The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
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Boys are so much drama.
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No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world’s amusements. It is for this reason that 'amusements' are not so amusing.
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I believe that we must not waste this moment. A responsible foreign policy must look outward from a stance of forward engagement, to our broadest hopes for the world - not just inward, to our narrowest fears. A responsible foreign policy must harness all our economic and military might - but it must also make use of our values and principles.
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I think what is interesting in life is all the cracks and all the flaws and all the moments that are not perfect.
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We were on welfare when we were kids. Thanks for reminding me of that.
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You never discount a demagogue.
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To write is a humiliation.
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If you don't love it, don't touch it.
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I blacked out in a Rite Aid. The doctor told me my heart function was at 5 percent. I spent two months in the hospital waiting to have a transplant. For me, that was the end of the world.
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I do not make movies to send any message, but my treatment makes my viewers think on the subject.
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The U.S.-E.U. partnership is indispensable to ensuring a Europe whole, free, and at peace.
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As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past.
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I like that I'm not typical. I like that I'm called 'no-genre hip-hop.'
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They're just not into doing sequels after Toy Story so I don't think that's a possibility. But if they did, well sure, you'd have to do it. And I'd want to do it.
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I like John Hughes movies.
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Psychology is probably the most important factor in the market - and one that is least understood.
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We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.
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Baby, everything is alright, uptight, out of sight.
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I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But I don't think it's alright to distort yourself.
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What a joy it is to read a book that shocks one into remembering just how high one's literary standards should be.... a tour de force by one of England's best novelists.... Atonement is a spectacular book; as good a novel - and more satisfying... - than anything McEwan has written....sublimely written narrative.... The Dunkirk passage is a stupendous piece of writing, a set piece that could easily stand on its own.
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Everything's gonna be alright.
