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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Dad was an amazing storyteller and illustrator, which he did in his spare time - very inspiring and dramatic.
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When I'm on the road and it's super stressful, it definitely affects my music. When I'm hanging out with my friends and my girlfriend and things are good in my life, then it's better.
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Austin is a big music town, so growing up, I had a lot of local heroes. Toni Price I was very, very into; she was one of the first people I tried to emulate. She's a local Austin blues artist. Marsha Paul I was also a very big fan of.
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Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.
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Soul music is timeless.
