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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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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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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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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The institutionalization of Black Studies, Feminist Studies, all of these things, led to a sense that the struggle was over for a lot of people and that one did not have to continue the personal consciousness-raising and changing of one's viewpoint.
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People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"
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The underdog winning is the romantic position.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.