Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.
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We don't exactly have the opposite interests to chimpanzees. However, things are not looking up for the chimpanzees, because we control their environment. Our interests are not perfectly aligned with theirs, and it turns out it's not easy to get interests aligned.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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I'm not really a mainstream novelist!
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You would not believe how much time people waste in a day. And how little time they put into things they genuinely love.
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I just love France, I love French people, I love the French language, I love French food. I love their mentality. I just feel like it's me. I'm very French.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Things heal. Bad stuff happens, but you go on. Life takes care of it.
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Civility is a choice.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.
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I think there's an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can't be excited when you're not doing something new.
