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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Either the men of Galilee were men of superlative wisdom, and extensive knowledge and experience, and of deeper skill in the arts of deception than any and all others, before them or after them, or they have truly stated astonishing things which they saw and heard.
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I'm trying to make the readers feel as if he or she is right there in the conversation, and so I don't try to manipulate it too much.
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A lot of times, when I record with a group, I'll stay after class for another hour or two and go, 'Let me try a bunch of things I was thinking of, as you were doing that.'
