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

• Good
• Together
• Feeling
• Moments
• Present
• Alive

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• Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.

  

  Nancy O'Dell
  • Love
  • Kids
  • Look

• The want of money is the root of all evil.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Money
  • Want
  • Evil

• 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
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Life
  • Free
  • Simplicity

• 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
  • Important
  • Power
  • Focus

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• 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
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility

• I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

  

  Ice T
  • Up
  • Men
  • Think

• 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
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Religion
  • Matter
  • Own

• The big tragedy in baseball is that the amateur spirit has gone out of it to a large extent.

  

  Larry MacPhail
  • Baseball
  • Tragedy
  • Big

• 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
  • Women
  • True
  • Dream

• We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Fear
  • Others
  • Greedy

• Being a role model is about being true to myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • True
  • Myself
  • Model

• There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Actions
  • Without
  • Protest

• In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • People
  • Today
  • Democracy

• 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.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Work
  • Party
  • Eye

• 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
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• My roots were in acting. That's all I wanted to be. Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Age
  • Father
  • Cool

• Playing live if the thing I love doing best.

  

  Bob Geldof
  • Live

• That's what fascinates me about these writers' retreats: You're in these small spaces with small groups of people, and all of the sudden, the spotlight is shining on you harder than it normally is.

  

  Lynn Coady
  • People
  • Small

• Actually, I've been a mechanic. My first job was in a gas station changing tires and pumping gas.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • Job

• At the end of the day, I'm an actor. I'm not here to sell other stuff or use off-screen things to generate whether or not I work. If I'm any good, I'll work; if I'm not, I won't.

  

  Jason Clarke
  • Good
  • Work

• 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
  • Good
  • Together
  • Feeling