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.Alicia Keys
Quotes to Explore
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
Nancy O'Dell -
The want of money is the root of all evil.
Samuel Butler -
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.
Zeljko Ivanek -
Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould -
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.
Garrett Neff -
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski
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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.
Zack Wamp -
I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
Ice T -
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.
Sally Mann -
One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.
Larry MacPhail -
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.
Laura Osnes
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We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.
Warren Buffett -
Being a role model is about being true to myself.
Idina Menzel -
There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
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.
Daley Thompson -
In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
Zebulon Pike -
I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed and built detectors that are extremely cheap and also very sensitive. My other big development is a system to produce medical isotopes that are injected into patients and used to diagnose and treat cancer.
Taylor Wilson
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There are these very poor communities on the outskirts of Cairo called Mokattam, where a lot of the garbage collectors live. I used to volunteer there, doing health and education work when I was younger and living in Egypt.
Jehane Noujaim -
There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
Oscar Wilde -
This is the way I look at sex scenes: I have basically been doing them for a living for years. Trying to seduce an audience is the basis of rock 'n roll, and if I may say so, I'm pretty good at it.
Jon Bon Jovi -
There is nothing better than walking out and hitting a home run.
Barry Bonds -
I have a song entitled "Just Ain't My Day" that is a straight country song almost. My vocals are very soulful it's a different kind of record but people's response to it is beyond powerful. Proving that good music is good music regardless of the genre.
Kimberly Michelle Pate -
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.
Alicia Keys