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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How lucky am I?
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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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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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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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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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Every time I win a tournament I have to think that there is something wrong with modern chess.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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With these celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
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A lot of the people who have come to know the company in the last few years will not have seen this piece.
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President Obama has created at least three jobs that I know of - Bob McDonnell, Chris Christie, and Scott Brown.
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Certainly, virtual reality headsets are behind in resolution, but it'll all catch up pretty quickly once there's a consumer market and there's demand.
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With Twitter, it's a little harder to tell jokes that somebody hasn't heard already. You have all these people out there sharing their opinions and telling jokes in real time, and by the time you get on, somebody's already done some version of what you're trying to do.
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Why give up before we try?
