Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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In some ways, jazz is the most precise of art forms and the loosest in the sense that it's all about improvisation, but the musicianship required is kind of insane. To actually play with real jazz musicians is a different level of musicianship that almost has no equal in any other form of music in the world.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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I'd read things, like people criticizing me. But no one likes to read stuff about that, and probably the main thing that was getting to me was me mum's illness.
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India should be an exporter of technology.
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Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
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That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.
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My mom didn't let me play video games growing up, so now I do. Gaming gives me a chance to just let go, blow somebody up and fight somebody from another dimension. It's all escapism.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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Our country has often stood like a solid rock in the face of common danger, and there is a deep underlying unity which runs like a golden thread through all our seeming diversity.
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People don't realize that I started in musical theater. That's where my roots are.
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God always takes the simplest way.
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How far you go depends on what you want for yourself, how much you're willing to leave on the floor, and how much you wanna face the fears you have inside of you. It's everything we're all dealing with every day.
