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.

Alicia Keys

• Face
• Fears
• Dealing

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• On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Friends
  • Day
  • Mine

• I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.

  

  Daniel Day-Lewis
  • People
  • Live
  • Some People

• 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.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • World
  • Music
  • Different

• Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • High
  • Understanding
  • Criticism

• Art is going to make a bigger comeback than ever. That's the upside to things getting challenging.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Art
  • Comeback
  • Ever

• What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Want
  • Safety
  • Framed

• 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.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Hair
  • Nightmares
  • Pale

• 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.

  

  Mae West
  • Important
  • Think
  • Saying

• I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • People
  • Live
  • Past

• 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.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • People
  • Me
  • Illness

• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Technology
  • Should
  • India

• 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.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Society
  • Source
  • Stupidity

• That's the gift that a mother can give, to make everyone feel like they are the special one.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Special
  • Gift

• 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.

  

  Adam G. Sevani
  • Job
  • Want
  • Feeling

• I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Music
  • Background

• Soul, soul is nothing. Can you see it, smell it, touch it? No.

  

  Dan Totheroh
  • Soul
  • See
  • Smell

• 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.

  

  Wayne Brady
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Mom

• 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.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • People
  • Value
  • Discipline

• I'm a complete junky for lotions and potions! I love SkinCeuticles Hydrating B5 Gel; it's like a serum and I put it on my face, and immediately I can feel it. I put my moisturiser on top of that, and I just know that it's going in more. I can feel it working, and I love it.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Love
  • Face
  • I Can

• You need to be aware of the qualities of every striker you face, as I always am, but sometimes you need to be smart and more than 100% ready for anything.

  

  Virgil van Dijk
  • Face
  • Qualities
  • Striker

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I would never slam my iPhone, and I never punched a metal door frame for any time.

  

  Andy Hurley Fall Out Boy
  • Time
  • Frame
  • iPhone

• 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.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Face
  • Fears
  • Dealing