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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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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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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Quien ha visto con los ojos abiertos, puede volver a ver, pero con los ojos cerrados.
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I just do whatever it is that I believe I should do, regardless of the risks to my life.
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Just by looking at nature, I feel as if I'm being swallowed up into it, and in that moment I get the sensation that my body's now a speck, a speck from long before I was born, a speck that is melting into nature herself.
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We all know what happens to first ladies who shoot their mouths off.
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But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best.
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Soul music is timeless.
