Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

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• When a man interrupts a woman in mid-sentence, it reveals much about him. First, it shows he hasn't been listening to what she is saying, and secondly, it indicates that he doesn't want to listen to what she will say. Her views are not important.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Important
  • She
  • Man

• I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Book
  • Down
  • Now

• These 'Sports Illustrated' people, they know how to hold a secret.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • People
  • Know
  • Sports

• Sometimes we do things that are really awful.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Sometimes
  • Things
  • Awful

• I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.

  

  Sadie Frost
  • Children
  • Control
  • Taxes

• India should be an exporter of technology.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Technology
  • Should
  • India

• I'm happiest when I'm moving.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Moving
  • Happiest

• Betty Shabazz was the wife of a man who challenged a government that was historically unjust. She was harassed and placed under surveillance by the Nation of Islam (NOI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • She
  • Man
  • Wife

• If I was doing 'The Hunt' constantly, I would get very old, very fast.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Fast

• If women's rights are a problem for some modern Muslim men, it is neither because of the Quran nor the Prophet, nor the Islamic tradition, but simply because those rights conflict with the interests of a male elite.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Conflict

• A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Think

• I'm cold in summer. I'm the coldest person ever! It's very ironic I'm never cold in the scripts. Every time I'm shooting, if you don't see a part of me, there are hot water bottles there.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Time
  • Water
  • Cold

• I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Up
  • Friend
  • Prom

• I met Gerhard Richter and Alighiero Boetti when I was a teenager, and I was really inspired by them. When Boetti died, I realized I only vaguely remembered so many things he told me. It was such a pity. Had I only recorded his voice, he would still be with me, and I could listen to it from time to time.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Time
  • Voice
  • Inspired

• Music is my balance... center of my life.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Life
  • Music
  • Balance

• The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Work
  • Better
  • Look

• The Czech Republic is a dynamic United Nations Member State, active on the Human Rights Council, contributing to the peaceful settlement of disputes, and helping other countries to achieve a democratic transition.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Achieve
  • Peaceful

• Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Democratic
  • Revelations
  • Societies

• If you follow your natural bent;you will definitely go to heaven.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Heaven
  • Follow
  • Bent

• Essentially, I'm a small-part actor who's been lucky enough to play leading roles for most of his life.

  

  Alec Guinness
  • Life
  • Small
  • Play

• When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Heart
  • Eye
  • Head

• The rule is to try and never play the same thing twice when you have the freedom to do that in the song.

  

  Peter Frampton
  • Play
  • Rule
  • Twice

• As he prepared to ride on, he chuckled at the thought of the wolf entering the sheepfold. He would not ride with fire and destruction. The shepherd did not frighten his own pretty lambs.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Fire
  • Destruction
  • Ride

• I'm so grateful that I can play and that I can execute what I hear in my head, because that's the tricky part.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Play
  • Head
  • Execute