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 KEYSWait, I’m deciding to be my own individual self. And it looks nothing like what anyone else is doing.
More Alicia Keys Quotes
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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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I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.
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We’re all going to change. Otherwise, it’s boring.
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You’re stronger, and you’re better, and you’re ready for whatever.
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Risk the fall to know how it feels to fly.
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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 always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I’m discovering who I am.
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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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Quiet moments recharge me.
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You’ve got to love what’s yours.
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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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Why give up before we try?
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Simplicity makes me happy.
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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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I’m in constant pursuit of growing and evolving.
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If you treat me fairly, I’ll give you all my goods.
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It’s karma, baby. And it goes around.
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If we took the time to learn more about different places and people, perhaps we would have more empathy for each other.
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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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The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.
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Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.
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What breaks my heart is suffering of any kind.
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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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I don’t dream – only if I’m uncomfortable or I’m going through something.
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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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Hand me the world on a silver platter, and what good would it be?
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