Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
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Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.
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I've done two 'Hamlets,' two 'Lears,' three 'Midsummer Night's Dreams' - I've done most of these plays more than once, and every time I direct them, I learn things.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I was a political science major in college and dreamed of being a diplomat.
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Consciousness is a state in which a man knows all at once everything that he in general knows and in which he can see how little he does know and how many contradictions there are in what he knows.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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When you travel around Moscow, you can see almost every car is using a smartphone where they can see what's ahead of them.
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People think I'm unusual but it's just that we haven't had anyone like this since the Seventies.
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I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.
