Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'
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The only time I really eat out is when I'm on the road. Then, I make the same choices that I would make at home - salmon and lots of oily fish and veggies.
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Dementia resembles delirium in the same way an ultra-marathon resembles a dash across the street. Same basic components, vastly different scale. If you've run delirium's course once or twice in your life, try to imagine a version that never ends.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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The man whose life is devoted to paperwork has lost the initiative. He is dealing with things that are brought to his notice, having ceased to notice anything for himself.
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We're not just going to take some songs from a focus group in Nashville where people are sitting around in a circle having appointments trying to write catchy songs so they can sell them to a band like us.
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Why would Senator Allen want to oppose saving money for the state? It's simply another example of Republicans fighting the governor tooth and nail against any measure where she might be able to turn the state's budget around.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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In the United Kingdom, we need to promote an inclusive British identity that involves and empowers people from all ethnic and faith backgrounds.
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When police or security personnel work in schools, they should follow the community policing model that integrates officers into school life, not just involve them when trouble arises.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
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Every company has its style, and that's what makes the Bolshoi so impressive: their attack on jumps or their attack on choreography.
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I have three lovely, lovely kids that I am in love with and that's in love with me.
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I just thought it would be something for the kids to enjoy...
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In the end, no matter how my records are panned or praised, if there are kids and communities in developing nations that have improved living conditions and are finally getting access to things we all have a basic right to clean water, education, healthcare because I am able to advocate, raise awareness or funds in some small way, then my life has achieved something that in the end means far more than having the track or album of the moment.
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I promised myself that I'd never actually admit to listening to 'New Kids on the Block.'
