Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
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I always tell women that the fact that you're different and that you're noticed, because there are few of us in the tech industry, is something you can leverage as an advantage.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I was able to really see that connection as a football player where success requires a lot of hard work and effort, physically and mentally.
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Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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I set myself one task, which was to get Labour on to the front foot, back in the game, making the weather on the economy, and that's going to take me a year.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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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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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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Sometimes I don't understand why I'm sitting here.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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It used to be that you had to come to Silicon Valley, walk up Sand Hill Road, network with individuals. That's now being completely changed and turned on its head by the whole ICO thing.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it's not just about redemption, it's about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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Wait, I'm deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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Justice is always violent to the party offending, for every man is innocent in his own eyes.
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Jim Morrison tells me that people are looking at the streets while I am looking at the moon. I do not feel connected enough with the issues to throw stones at a policeman. I want to throw stones at the whole world.
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I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening.
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I've kept my phone on silent for a year and a half. For me, it's too much noise. It's not my jam. I like to keep things a lot more easygoing. The world's not going to stop if you don't pick up your phone.
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Adam Levine and I remade the Rolling Stones' classic Wild Horses, and it is right up my alley, that whole style. It has a style of its own but still stays very true to the classic arrangement, and I love it.
