Business can change you, and chew you up, and spit you out, and be rid of you, and on to the next thing. That’s why it’s so important to know who you are and stand up for something.
ALICIA KEYSMy music comes from many, many, many places. My emotions, my feelings, my thoughts, and conversations I have with people I know who influence me.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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You have to identify what you care about and why you care about it. It has to be personal. It has to be something that fires you up or means something to you, or it’s not going to drive you.
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I’m very happy with my body.
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We have the potential to help people out of poverty, out of disease, out of slavery and out of conflict. Too often we turn the other way because we think there’s nothing we can do.
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The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.
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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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From the beginning, I’ve had to juggle and weigh the silly things people say – and I’ve learnt that they’re meaningless, and they’re mostly inaccurate. So I don’t worry about it, because there’s nothin’ for me to deal with.
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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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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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Falling down ain’t falling down, If you don’t cry when you hit the floor, It’s called the past cause I’m getting past, And I ain’t nothing like I was before, You ought to see me now.
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Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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Love is accepting people for who they are and what they are, regardless.
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Wait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
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Quiet moments recharge me.
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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I’m a very caring person.
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