Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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A happy wife is a happy life.
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Actors are always the last to see what they have created.
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Surely the only sound foundation for a civilization is a sound state of mind.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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Speech happens to not be his language.
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In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.
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In college, my idea of a productive day was to start writing at 7 A.M. and not leave my chair until dinnertime.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.
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The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.
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After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.
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Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
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The problem I've got is that I really, really like drugs. I love everything about them. It is horrific being sober all the time-utterly awful.
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I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.
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Bass players and drummers are brothers in the basement cooking up the groove that makes people move.
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On any given day, in any given moment, something could happen that opens up for you an entirely new path. Be still, be alert, be ready.
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Treat any and all drugs with respect, for most of the time they are stronger than you are.
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You're stronger, and you're better, and you're ready for whatever.
