Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

Alicia Keys

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• If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Want
  • Name
  • Charity

• Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Man

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Shoes
  • Three

• I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!

  

  Tammy Blanchard
  • City
  • Born
  • New

• The studio didn't ask them to learn their trade, they just worked them, and when that personality or that gimmick or whatever they had ran dry at the box office, they were dropped and out.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • Learn
  • Personality
  • Box

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

  

  Naomi Campbell
  • Money
  • Worth
  • Lot

• If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Will
  • Prosperity
  • Far

• Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Thought
  • Clouds
  • Rainbow

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Nobody

• I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Friends

• I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Real
  • Mother
  • Company

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• Although sometimes I might sound sometimes idealist or too optimistic but I think my father used to say to me in everything bad there's something good that is going to come out of it and there will always be a tomorrow.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Father

• The European Union will continue to fully support multilateral global governance based on international law, human rights, and strong international institutions.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Strong
  • Law
  • Support

• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Important
  • Game
  • Amazing

• I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• I cook everything. I love Mediterranean cooking, I love Asian cooking. I do lots of Japanese noodles.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Love
  • Everything
  • Cooking

• Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • Nature
  • Political

• Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.

  

  Ma Jian
  • Body
  • Individual
  • Self-Worth

• It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

  

  Bob Iger
  • Time
  • Good
  • Business

• I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Pretty
  • Person
  • Stuff

• I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you'd better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that's going to shape them. They are going to become you.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Person