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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When other women have this same operation, it doesn't make any headlines. But the fact that I was the wife of the President put it in headlines and brought before the public this particular experience I was going through. It made a lot of women realize that it could happen to them. I'm sure I've saved at least one person maybe more.
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A majority of all defectors who voted Labour in 2010 but for a different party in 2015 said Ed Miliband had helped push them to another party. For those switching to the Tories, the second biggest reason was the fear that a Labour government would spend and borrow too much.
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In the absence of orders, go find something and kill it.
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That one record changed everything for me. After Sgt. Pepper, it's the most influential record in the history of rock and roll. It affected Pink Floyd deeply, deeply, deeply. Philosophically, other albums may have been more important, like Lennon's first solo album. But sonically, the way the record's constructed, I think Music from Big Pink is fundamental to everything that happened after it.
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Kyoya: Some say I only became more calculating but I don't care... because you lose out if you don't have fun, right?
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I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.
