Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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The want of money is the root of all evil.
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It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that they do. It's not just because they are evil, but because that's how they somehow explain the world to themselves and justify themselves. It's always interesting figuring out how that happens.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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I think the most important element of a power outfit is proper fit. The one item to focus on is a suit. If it's the right fit, you could wear it with a T-shirt and still convey the positive message.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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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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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
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Getting to perform at the Carlyle, following in the footsteps of women like Elaine Stritch, Barbara Cook, Christine Ebersole, Kelli O'Hara, and so many others, is nothing short of a dream come true.
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
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Being a role model is about being true to myself.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Retiring was hard. I'd spent 15 years doing something I loved, but when you get older everything seems to go. When I started spending too long with the physio and the doctor, I knew it was time to call it a day. But I had no preparation for being retired and I didn't know what to do.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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I'm a huge fan of the program 'Democracy Now,' which is hosted by Amy Goodman, and I subscribe to the podcast.
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If you lined up 10 writers and asked them to write a movie about Steve Jobs, you'd get 10 very different movies.
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I want this book to be facts, to be important, to be history.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones. When I am truly present, I feel alive, and I want everyone around me to share that feeling so we can make the most of that moment together.
