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

Alicia Keys

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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Cry Down Effort Fall Hard Time Myself See Struggle
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
If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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Fact Feeling Handle Myself Situation
A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It’s a very moody key, and also ‘A’ is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes.
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Eyes Keys Name Oneself Play Representation Time
You’re stronger, and you’re better, and you’re ready for whatever.
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Better Ready Strong 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
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.
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Beautiful Love Marriage Myself Relationship Thinking Work
Even if your family isn’t quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
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Family People Quite Support Yourself
At the end of the day, so many things that we hold so much value with, it just doesn’t even mean anything. I really try to stay focused on being really positive.
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Day End Focus Myself Positive Value
There’s something so powerful about being my own gorgeous, beautiful, individual, unique self.
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Beautiful Myself Powerful Unique
Why give up before we try?
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Give Up Inspirational Try
Love me like you’ll never see me again.
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Love Myself Relationship See Yourself
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
I don’t worry cause, everything’s gonna be alright.
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Myself Right Worry
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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Conflict Help People Potential Poverty Thinking
It’s the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.
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Feeling Myself Unknown Vulnerable
I don’t have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don’t have huge family, but the family I have is a great one.
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Family Friendship Greatness Huge Myself
I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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Evolution Growth Myself Pursuit
I’d rather not have anything than be a liar.
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Lying Myself
Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Art Creation Life Yourself
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
The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Arrangement Small Yourself
The most important thing is to be proud of the work that you put into something, and put the ego aside.
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Cruelty Important Proud Work Yourself
No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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Care Self Love Yourself
The more you know the stronger you become, the closer you feel to yourself and the farther you can go.
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Close Feeling Strong Yourself
What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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Break Heart Broken Kind Myself Suffering
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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Experience Liberty Maturity Myself

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