Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes

I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Day
  • Doing The Right Thing

• Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Bad
  • Friend
  • Lonely

• The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.

  

  Ferdinand de Saussure
  • Different
  • Contribution

• 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.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Done
  • Mother
  • Pretty

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Children

• The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Remember
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • You
  • Relationship
  • Always

• I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.

  

  Jack Ramsay
  • Past
  • Problem
  • Cancer

• People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Born
  • Conservative

• I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Write
  • Books
  • Try

• Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• I know politics; I know the media.

  

  Valerie Trierweiler
  • Know
  • Politics
  • Media

• Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Good
  • Democracy

• It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Modern
  • Becomes
  • Old-fashioned

• The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them.

  

  Nelson A. Miles
  • Important

• The movies I used to watch, I remember always being so angry because I felt like I, as a teenage girl, was never truly represented in a film. There were always bits of me that were represented - I'd watch 'Juno' and be like, 'Oh, well part of me is like that, but it's still not the whole thing.'

  

  Bel Powley
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Angry

• My favorite red carpet jewelry is by Alberto Parada, who designed my Oscar jewelry, as it's modern yet old school at the same time.

  

  Carly Steel
  • Time
  • School
  • Red

• What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

  

  David Hume
  • Experience
  • History

• I don't believe that you are ever done. Is life ever going to stop and stand still? We have to move as fast as the world is moving.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Life
  • World
  • Believe

• I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.

  

  Alicia Keys
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