Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.Alicia Keys
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
Warren Weaver -
When foreign assistance has a clear mission, buy-in from the aid-recipient country, and explicit metrics for implementation, the United States will be able to transition aid-recipient nations into strong trading partners. One of the greatest examples of this successful transition is South Korea.
Ted Yoho -
Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
Barbara Deming -
Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
Aaron Sorkin -
I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
Carli Lloyd -
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
Camille Claudel
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
Larry King -
The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
Harriet Ann Jacobs -
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
Umberto Eco -
No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
Ralph Vaughan Williams -
I use coconut oil every single day. I apply coconut oil on my whole body for moisturising. The oil can also be used as make-up remover, as it is light-based and is not sticky.
Nargis Fakhri -
The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
L. Neil Smith
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
Ibrahim Babangida -
I would really love to collaborate with Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.; artists that kind of make sense with me vocally. And in terms of style, I'm a very visual artist. I really love Pharell. I love people that really care about drums, and I like beat-heavy.
Kat Graham -
I'm a much better mother at 46... than if I were like, 21 or 25.
Halle Berry -
If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
Jack Canfield -
One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
Wendell Pierce -
Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
SZA -
Don't expect others to do your work for you.
William Lewis Safir -
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
Leo Durocher -
Of course we all know when music's too much in the head, and we define our greatest players by the way they are able to communicate directly from their emotional selves.
Kurt Elling -
Maybe the 'Million Little Pieces' of the world are so popular because no one ever writes memoirs about PTA chairwomen; what memoirists do, and often get in trouble for, is bring interesting lives to light.
Darin Strauss -
Things can be really empty in this world, and I don't just mean the music world. It can become a very meaningless place if you don't really understand: Who am I? Why am I here? What am I doing? To feel fulfillment and have a deeper level of understanding, personally, that is the most important thing.
Alicia Keys