Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.
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War is one of the scourges with which it has pleased God to afflict men.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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'Twilight's got some avid - and rabid - fans.
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The woman who has her being in marriage and motherhood has become part of antithetical reality, revoking property from the woman who remains in a condition of intangible femininity.
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To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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Clarice: proposing to Toni I'll be your lawyer if you'll be my accountant.
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Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.
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It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.
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Usually when I see Matthew [McConaughey] at a show, he'll be down in front with his shirt off with two beers just going mental, lit up and having an amazing time.
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I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
