Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
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The world is always in movement.
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My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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The whole atmosphere of the book, the tone of 'The Hobbit,' is of a kid's adventure story, told in the first person by Tolkien, who is introducing young people to the notion of Middle-earth. A lot of it is very light-hearted.
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Whenever I have even a spare second, I'm in the kitchen whipping up a batch of cookies. I make a mean batch of chocolate chippers.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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Ethel Merman would stay with a show for years and tour with it. So would Mary Martin, the great stars. They recognized the value of that success and nurtured it. Now, you come from Hollywood, you play 12 weeks and go away. I don't think that's the best policy.
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My husband and I were married in May 2007 on a sprawling rent-a-ranch in the Texas Hill Country. On the drive from Houston, we'd stopped off for our marriage license in the former produce aisle of a Winn Dixie-turned-courthouse in San Marcos and from there drove off the grid.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
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Employees that feel known and they feel like they know why their job matters and they have a sense of measuring it stay later, do extra work, and are committed to the organization above the requirements that they have.
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Nature herself has never attempted to effect great changes rapidly.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person.
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Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
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Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
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I'm from a normal household. I haven't always had millions to spend on creams and clothes. I like something that's affordable, but good quality. With Avon, it's really accessible, and everyone loves it. It's a brand that you can rely on.
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When evidence emerged that Clinton was a devoted mother, Margaret Carlson writing in 'TIME' found her guilty of 'yuppie overdoting on her daughter.'
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When I had nothing else, I had my mother and the piano. And you know what? They were all I needed.
