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I think there was something about being in a tough environment that gave me a certain drive.

Alicia Keys

I think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
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Energy Excitement Thinking Yourself
When I’m on stage, my interaction with the audience is something that really makes me come alive. It’s a feeling like no other. The energy of the crowd fuels something new inside.
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Alive Audience Feeling Fuel Myself New Stage
I’d rather believe in my own choice and see it all go wrong than do something I’m not fully convinced of and later feel guilty about it.
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Believe Choice Feeling Guilty Myself See Wrong
Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.
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Change Empowerment Woman World
It’s when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.
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Afraid Potential Reach Worry Yourself
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind. Too often, our world is divisive and cruel where it needs to be uniting and loving.
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Break Heart Love Need Suffering Unity
Failure isn’t an option. I’ve erased the word fear from my vocabulary and I think when you erase fear you can’t fail.
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Failure Option Thinking Vocabulary Word Yourself
Love is giving of yourself in a way that is free of fear.
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Fear Freedom Love Yourself
I think you are who you are, and your kids will see who you are. So you’d better be a good person, because they are going to see it, and that’s going to shape them. They are going to become you.
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Better Character Children Deep Family Thinking Yourself
Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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Fly Need Order Start Time Yourself
Simplicity makes me happy.
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Happiness Myself Simplicity
I’ve been able to find a lot of what I’ve not had before: freedom, bravery, fearlessness. It’s empowering to find those things.
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Brave Empowerment Fear Freedom Myself
I’ve always expressed myself best through writing. I’ve gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember.
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Deep Expression Feeling Myself Remember
I grew up in a pretty tough neighborhood. I grew up around drugs, alcohol, prostitution, I grew up around everything, and I think part of seeing that from really young has made me really steer very far away from it in all of its forms.
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Drugs Growth Myself Tough Young
Be driven, be focused, but enjoy every moment, because it only happens once.
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Drive Focus Goal Inspirational Moments
I feel the presence of a higher power. I believe that what you give is what you get. It’s universal law. I believe in the power of prayer and of words. I’ve learned that when you predict that negative things will happen, they do.
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Feeling Learning Myself Negative Power Presence Universal

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