Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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Celebs says we have no time for love, but I wouldn't say that.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Cultures and races are mixing in a very organic way in the world, and that should be reflected in film and television.
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It's not that that I'm not comfortable being naked, but when you grow up fat, you can't take away the shame or embarrassment even though you're a model. It's not just erased.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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A lot of things can't be modeled very well.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")
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Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.
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I'm more like a spoon symbol. I think women just want to spoon me.
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It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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Soul music is timeless.
