Alicia Keys (Alicia Augello Cook) Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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We shall probably get nearest to the truth if we think of the conscious and personal psyche as resting upon the broad basis of an inherited and universal psychic disposition which is as such unconscious, and that our personal psyche bears the same relation to the collective psyche as the individual to society.
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I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.
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I want to do an American 'Umbrellas of Cherbourg.'
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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What I'd like to pass on to my children is the thirst for knowledge. It's something I experience every day that I learned from my father. He always taught me that no matter how long you've done something, you can always learn something new and be better at what you do.
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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.
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I was into basketball, but then once I found contact sports, it was over. I never played basketball again in my life.
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I'm pretty much a thrift shop gal. Flea markets on Sundays.
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The greatest things are accomplished by individual people, not by committees or companies.
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I usually sleep just a few hours a night.
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If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
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It doesn't have to be a mountain you have to be climbing. I hope to change people's opinion about Saudi in general and Saudi women and Saudi women's opinion about themselves. I really hope they can step out of their comfort zone and just dream: try to push your limits.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I love working back home, but it is a small country, and we do get tired of watching each other.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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I love a microphone and a big crowd; I'm an entertainer, I guess.
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The European Union and its member states continue and will continue, as the nuclear deal is implemented, to have open channels with Iran.
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We want to promote the great qualities of athletics - and maintain its integrity - all over the world.
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When I first started in this industry, my goal was to be some best friend. The sidekick. I thought that would be an accomplishment.
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Growing up, my mates and I would have rather been Sid Vicious or members of the Royal Family.
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Everything I've done in my career is a result of growing up in rural Oklahoma, because if I hadn't had the training from Mama and Daddy to work hard, to do what I'm told, to take directions, to mind and to do a good job at anything I set out to do, then I wouldn't be where I am today.
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I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
