Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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Every generation comes with a unique athlete, I don't think anybody wants to be the next Nadia; they want to be themselves.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.
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I do constantly get to change the way I look, which is sort of an old-school idea of acting.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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My father loves people. No matter what their race, no matter what their position in life, he treated everyone with kindness and love and respect. And that was instilled in me just by watching him.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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I became fascinated with the concept of speak no, see no, hear no evil. And - and the actual depiction of three wise monkeys. And I began collecting it over the years. And I kind of figured that I might be the - the fourth monkey, the feel no evil monkey.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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When I talk to Chicagoans who live in our most violence-prone neighborhoods, they do not hate the police. In fact, they tell me they want more cops and fewer gangs. They do not want more officers in cars just driving through their communities. They want officers on the beat in their neighborhoods.
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I never got into coffee.
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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out.
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I certainly don't walk around my home or being with my family and just using profane language all the time, but on stage, it's a constant.
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When you're trying to sustain a high level of intensity and panic, sometimes it actually helps to have something happen that makes you really afraid because even if in real life it wouldn't make you that scared, to take that little bit of fear and be melodramatic about it, I guess, and convince yourself that it's worse, can be effective.
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I will always remember the fear in the faces of the executed. That's the first day I felt the devil's presence.
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Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually.
