Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I make mistakes on a very grand scale.
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I've shared the fate of many working mothers; I felt guilty like them.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I'm the most optimistic guy about VR out there. I have crazy visions of what we'll be doing in the future.
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Excellence always sells.
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Republicans have never been good at public relations.
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The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.
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Time found our tired love sleeping,And kissed away his breath;But what should we do weeping,Though light love sleep to death?We have drained his lips at leisure,Till there's not left to drainA single sob of pleasure,A single pulse of pain.
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I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine.
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I am, on principle, opposed to war and in favor of peace because I regard peace as a positive good and war as a positive evil.
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I know that some consider it controversial for me to claim that God saved my life when I had received an experimental drug and some of the greatest medical care available in the world. I can see how these two realities appear to contradict each other.
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Our moral sense really evolved to bind groups together into teams that can cooperate in order to compete with other teams.
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I love Bono. I really respect what he has done for Africa and how he has used his fame to do good in the world. I hope I can do half as much in my life.
