Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
Alicia Keys
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
Victor Pinchuk
When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
Irving Layton
A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
Fatema Mernissi
'Love Don't Let Me Down,' which is the original title of 'Country Strong,' was just as difficult emotionally as 'Tron' was physically. I play a country singer that basically gets on tour with Gwyneth Paltrow's character, who is one of the biggest country stars out there, and she's fallen down too many times and it's an intense emotional story.
Garrett Hedlund
When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
Laura Bush
My life has taken me down several different paths I never expected it to take me down. Not in a million years.
Kate Winslet
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
Mary Oliver
Just because something is working today doesn't mean it will work forever.
Bonnie Hammer
I've been really lucky that I've been exposed to a lot of lovely, talented people who are not jerks, and I would like to continue that streak.
Mackenzie Davis
The guy I read and I love is Irvin Yalom.
Jason Clarke
I don't work for the commercial success of the film. I work to satisfy my producers who give me the money. I work to satisfy the director who has written a script for me. Of course, I have to satisfy the actor in me, but I want to satisfy them first.
Ajith Kumar
My mother was raised very, very strict Catholic in the Midwest. There was so much fear and intimidation [in the faith]. So, growing up, I was always looking for my connection. I've found myself praying before meals, before bed; there's always been this gratitude for things that are bigger than me.
Alicia Keys
