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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We have perfected the art of finding problems without fixing real-world issues. We focus too much on complexity, not harm.
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Business money reattaches worldwide Deep inside stops the diamond rocks In a million world, billion world, quitrillion world Rap moves on to the year three thousand
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I love running. I've been running ever since middle school. In terms of clearing your head and restarting everything, I love running.
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One of my earliest memories is seeing the bright blue, Epic 45 of Jackie Wilson singing 'Higher and Higher,' and I'd say, 'That one!' and my parents would play it every Sunday afternoon and we'd all get up and leap around the house.
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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.
