Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
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I think women are really self-analytical in a way that men aren't.
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What makes a woman beautiful is her loyalty to and her friendships with other women, and her honesty with men.
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Likewise the leader of any state has to do the same, he has to enforce Shariah firmly, for he will be held in account later in the afterlife if he fails.
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I don't like attacking.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I have learned to know God. I have recast my social belief... All my admirers are married; most of my friends are dead; and I stand with all the world before me, where to choose a path to make in it.
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My parents were ordinary people; we lived in a small apartment.
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Pakistan is alarmed by the rising Indian influence in Afghanistan, and fears that an Afghanistan cleansed of the Taliban would be an Indian client state, thus sandwiching Pakistan between two hostile countries. The paranoia of Pakistan about India's supposed dark machinations should never be underestimated.
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That's double-edged: it's amazing that they're bringing me in and showing people new ideas, and at the same time it's a little hard because seventy percent of the time or even higher I'm not going to get those roles.
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A marriage contract to me is as binding as any in business, and I have always believed in sticking to an agreement.
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I love the produce section at the grocery store.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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I don't believe in murder.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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You should take notes whenever you hear interesting or original language.
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My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.
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The anti-Darwin movement has racked up one astounding achievement. It has made a significant proportion of American parents care about what their children are taught in school.
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It would be nice to feel that we are a better world, a world of more compassion and a world of more humanity, and to believe in the basic goodness of man.
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Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced.
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All I want to say is that life is very fragile. We should live every moment and cherish what we have been given.
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We wish the last two years had been smoother. We wish there had been no injuries. We wish he could have played more and played back to the standard where he wanted to be. I know he was totally frustrated by it.
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Each organism's environment, for the most part, consists of other organisms.
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I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.
