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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I just want to have fun.
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There has to be an inner peace process that treats gang members like traumatized war victims who lack counseling, jobs, and respect. A lot of that has got to be self-administered in affinity groups, counseling groups, in jail and out of jail, with resources and professional help.
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It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression.
