Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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That is what fame is, isn't it? To get the world to fall in love with you.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'm a bit of a magpie: whatever I see or hear or read feeds into the songs.
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
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Accepting your own mortality is like eating your vegetables: You may not want to do it, but it's good for you.
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To be smart on crime, we should not be in a position of constantly reacting to crime after it happens. We should be looking at preventing crime before it happens.
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The thing I love is that my home life hasn't changed. I still help out with the garbage. I still help out with the lawn.
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When I'm writing, I mean what I'm saying - there's a lot of me in each song.
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Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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Mum is a photographer, and Dad does world music and plays almost every instrument except for drums.
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I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else.
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I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It's a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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If you got beauty, beauty, just raise em up. Cause every inch of you is perfect from the bottom to the top.
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When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.
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It is clear to me, as I consider the work laid out in the staff report, that many E-Rate program weaknesses must be addressed legislatively to avoid future waste and misuse.
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Nothing not built with hands of course is sacred. But here is not a question of what's sacred; Rather of what to face or run away from. I'd hate to be a runaway from nature.
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In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.
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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
