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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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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It is hard to look the other way when a dictator is being so cruel and violent with his own people.
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I’m proud to be Japanese and I wanted my country to succeed. I believed my system was a way that could help us become a modern industrial nation. That is why I had no problem with sharing it with other Japanese companies, even my biggest competitors.
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I'm from an Irish Catholic family.
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There was one point where my mother was dying of lung cancer, and a journalist dressed up as a nurse and got in the house to get a picture of her, dying of lung cancer and stuff like that, and then you realise the fame's not all it's cracked up to be.
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'Independence Day,' ever since we did it, there's been enormous pressure to follow it up.
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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.
