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.
ALICIA KEYSI think there’s an energy about just remaining excited. Like, you can’t be excited when you’re not doing something new.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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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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But when I first fell in love with the piano, I knew it was me. I was dying to play.
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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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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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Through the shake of an earthquake I will never fall. That’s how strong my love is.
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Quiet moments recharge me.
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I’m not ashamed of what I am and that I have curves and that I’m thick. I like my body.
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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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No one will take care of you if you don’t take care of yourself.
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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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I think we deserve people who really, really love us.
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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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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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I feel more like I’m a person who has so much to offer in different capacities that it would be a danger for me not to give myself a chance to spread my wings in all different directions.
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I’m a very caring person.
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