Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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I like to believe that we all pray to the same god.
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They do believe that if we do not wage this war against terror in places like Baghdad and Kabul, we are more likely to have it waged in Baltimore and Kansas.
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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I'm not a professional politician, I'm a problem solver.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I remember having an argument with Alan, I said the Queen's not just going to call the guy up and send him out to do it. And Alan says, well, how would a monarch give orders to her assassin.
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Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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It's always been my dream to do a dance scene with Anthony Hopkins.
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To me, there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form – and local human passions and conditions and standards – are depicted as native to other worlds and universes.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.
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He who knows others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened.
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There's always reasons to make mistakes. Because then you do new mistakes next time. So they're beautiful mistakes.
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I did grow up in a military family but lacked the perspective to grasp the cognitive dissonance carried by most people who serve in the armed forces or the circumstances that push lots of folks into the military. I don't blame G.I. Joe or Rambo for that atmosphere, but they certainly reflected the final stage of a two generation cultural myth.
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Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
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But did I think it would last more than 13 episodes at the time? No, I didn't think that. I never know.
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Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
