Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.
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For all intents and purposes, I'm a woman.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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Black culture has been a huge influence in my life.
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Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I know the Russian political elite has got used to the Ukraine suffering from an inferiority complex, but I want this to disappear from our relationship.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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When I first met my wife, I really just settled down quite a bit and I started living a much cleaner lifestyle. I was able to concentrate on things that I neglected in the past a little more and I was spending a lot more time at home than I normally would.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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The challenge of a cathedral is very good for architectural inventiveness.
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There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.
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As straight Americans we have two choices: we can choose to sit back and enjoy our rights as we have them, or we can realize that it is actually not freedom at all when our friends, family, neighbors, and colleagues do not share these basic rights.
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My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I don't care what people do. I don't care how people remember my albums. I do them for my own reasons.
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I seem to have a soft spot in my heart for Australia and Australian actors. After having worked with one in 'Cinderella' and a multitude of them in 'Cats,' I've wanted the opportunity to actually perform 'down under.'
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I have never had anything done to my face because then you end up looking as they all do in America. Look at Judi Dench: she would never be as good if she had had work done.
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We are the people our parents warned us about.
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I'm going to continue to talk about what is important to the people of Connecticut which is jobs, getting people back to work, the economy.
