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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There is a diversity of thought and philosophy, diversity of languages and dialects, diversity of political spectrum, and there's a diversity of taste for food. I don't label or characterize Jews in any way.
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Artists don't compare themselves to each other based on money. Nobody really knows what money other artists have. They don't care that much. The measure is the work and how you think your work is perceived. How the museums are. How you are doing.
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I met Tyler Perry and we did 'House of Payne' and a movie. We've done a couple other films since then, but it all boils down to the work. I'm a work-a-holic, which is why I think that I've been successful. If you tell me no, I'll work even harder!
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I want to show up to work and take risks. I don't ever want to play it safe.
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I opposed the World Trade Organization.
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Why give up before we try?
