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.
ALICIA KEYSThe 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.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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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 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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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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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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Your life can become the background for the art you create.
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Everybody goes through their life in different ways. I definitely am having my journey. It evolves and changes. At some moments, I feel totally off center and trying to find my way back.
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I find that the love we share fills me up and makes me see and appreciate life in a different way.
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If I know everything around the situation, all the facts, I feel like I can handle just about anything.
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I believe if you can find something to give back to, your soul will feel fulfilled in a very powerful way.
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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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I really like to live my life in a low-key fashion.
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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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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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Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned…another lesson learned.
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Love will come find you, just to remind you of who you are.
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