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

Alicia Keys

I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
ALICIA KEYS

Fashion Life Live Myself
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.
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Business Change Important Stand Yourself
Early on in my career, I was more closed off in every way. I thought I was protecting myself; instead, I was robbing myself of all I could learn and experience.
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Career Experience Learning Myself Protection Thinking
The desire to play has always been in me. I remember my first experience at about four or five of really dying to sing and dying to play that came from no one telling me to do so.
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Death Desire Experience Myself Play
You can’t really compare people. That’s one of the biggest lessons I’ve learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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Big Compare Lesson People Stop Yourself
It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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Feeling Myself Unknown Vulnerable
Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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Love Myself Relationship Strong
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
Sometimes you need to start again, in order to fly
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Fly Need Order Start Time Yourself
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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Experience Liberty Maturity Myself
Good food is an amazing blessing. Whenever you can sit down at a table, eat food that is extremely delicious, and are surrounded by people you love it’s: Wow, life is good.
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Delicious Food Goodness People Run Surround Yourself
You’re stronger, and you’re better, and you’re ready for whatever.
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Better Ready Strong Yourself
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 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.
ALICIA KEYS

Better Character Children Deep Family Thinking Yourself
I’m committed to evolving and growing and sitting at the head of my own table with no fears or limitations. But I’ve also learned to be more open now and more spontaneous in life.
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Commitment Growth Head Life Myself
I think that marriage is beautiful. And if it’s a partnership with someone you love, then it really is beautiful. Yeah, I think that marriage does work.
ALICIA KEYS

Beautiful Love Marriage Myself Relationship Thinking Work

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