Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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People think I am America's party girl, which is just stupid. I have done 24 movies and I am creating my own TV show.
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What goes for sex goes double for politics.
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How lucky am I?
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Growing up in Ireland, there never seemed to be the notion that children should be seen and not heard. We all looked forward to mealtimes when we'd sit around the table and talk about our days. Storytelling and long, rambling conversations were considered good things.
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project.
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My first album was completed in three months.
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Nobody likes a child to die or losing an election.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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In 1993, when I landed in Zimbabwe, there were just 10 psychiatrists in that country of 10 million people. Nine of the 10 were foreigners who spoke no regional language.
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Evolution - evolutionary change - does not happen quickly.
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Kuhn was the intellectual of whom many scientists said he's 'telling it as is it is' insofar as talking about a process of 'tinkering' in terms of theory and experiment followed by radical changes. But often, what Kuhn had in mind were some very spectacular incidents in the history of the sciences that changed our way of looking at the world.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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I think it was one of the better meetings that I've had with those guys, because I was honestly able to say everything I wanted to say, and I pretty much aired out the dirty laundry. So from that point on, I thought all of that was behind us.
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You must never throw away things that are worth good money.
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One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.
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Economics takes a while to learn, even if much of it is in a way quite simple. It is simple to be wrong as well as to be right, and it is none too easy to distinguish between them.
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I grew up in Malibu, so it's nice to be back home and be with my parents and sit and drive my car and listen to music and just chill out for a little bit.
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You are all lions – so go your own way. Do not walk the beaten path like sheep, one after another. Do not follow any path. Lions do not follow each other like sheep.
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Why give up before we try?
