Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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My first car was an '84 Ford Taurus. It caught on fire from me trying to change the fuel pump, so that wasn't good at all. Dried leaves on the ground while I was trying to change the fuel pump. Don't do that. Do it on concrete.
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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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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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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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We don't want to be treated any differently, and we want to continue with our lives and our careers.
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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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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
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I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.
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I knew there would be a negative reaction in the press to my divorce, but I am not going to live my life because of something someone might say.
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I was really excited because I had never ever in my life done anything like this [Romeo + Juliette], and at such a young age it was like, "Wow, my dreams are coming true, I'm already in a movie at the age of 12."
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The fear of a work becoming dated is one of the most effective tools for keeping people from writing political work.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
