Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
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I like Dolce & Gabbana's fragrance Light Blue - it's my everyday perfume.
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Maybe one day music will just be music, and there won't be these categories; it'll just be different shades of music.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.
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I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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If I don't write down a thought - or an image or a line of poetry - the instant it comes to mind, it vanishes, which explains why I have pens and notebooks in my pants and coat pockets, the car, the bicycle basket, on one or two desks in every room including bathrooms and the kitchen.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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There are epic downsides to living a somewhat public life. The upshot of that is there's nothing to hide. It's a relief in a way. There's nothing about me that can't be said.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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It's very disincentivizing to have others take care of your needs.
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I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I want to play a psycho, something more challenging than just 'the girlfriend' part.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Sometimes events happen in one Marvel movie that mean you have to adjust what you planned to happen in a different movie, because they're interconnected.
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The world had already changed before September 11. The world has been going through a process of change over the last 20 or 30 years. A civilization ends, another one begins.
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Art is, for me, the process of trying to wake up the soul. Because we live in an industrialized, fast-paced world that prefers that the soul remain asleep.
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I eagerly awaited visitors, but the anticipation and the extra energy of greetings caused a numbing exhaustion. As the first stories unfolded, my spirit held on to the conversation as best it could—I so wanted these connections to the outside world—but my body sank beneath waves of weakness. Still, my friends were golden threads randomly appearing in the monotonous fabric of my days. Each visit was a window that opened momentarily into the life I had once known, always falling shut before I could make my way back through. The visits were like dreams from which I awoke once more alone.
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The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside. It reminds me to live in the moment.
