Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Winning is everything in Hollywood.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Software-industry battles are fought by highly paid and out-of-shape nerds furiously pounding computer keyboards while they guzzle diet Coke. The stakes aren't very dramatic. Life? Liberty? The pursuit of happiness? Nope, it's about stock options.
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Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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Chinese people need to be controlled; otherwise, they will do whatever they want.
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Regardless of some disagreements in the past with Dr. Kissinger, I personally had a very good relationship with the secretary when I served as ambassador to the United States and later on as premier.
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I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
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The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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Going vegetarian - and then vegan - has calmed me down, and it has also made me physically and emotionally strong. I do crave meat once in a while, but I find that spiritually, non-vegetarian food works against my emotional health.
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I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
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As a young girl I think I wanted to be a horse woman. I loved horses.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and there is also the growing problem of perverse incentives that result from executives receiving grossly disproportionate compensation based on decisions they themselves take.
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God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.
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The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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Many things inspire me. First and foremost, my family, my husband, and our son. I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
