Alicia Keys Quotes

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.

Alicia Keys

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MyselfMeChanceFeelWingsPerson

Did you come of age in those sweet summers of the early nineteen-sixties, when the airwaves were full of rock and roll's doo-wop promise of joy and the nation was full of J.F.K.'s eloquent promise of a New Frontier? I did. Life seemed to be laid out before us like a banquet; everything was for the taking, especially hearts.

John Lahr

LifeAgeJoySweetYouEarly

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

Matt Smith

KidEatUsedBehindSignificance

I have a strong accent; it limits the roles, of course it does. I guess if I had moved to America a long time ago maybe my accent would have got less.

Jean Reno

TimeLimitsStrongAmericaLongGot

At my advanced age - I'm now an octogenarian - I'm constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

AgePeoplePictureNowWantTake

If women be educated for dependence; that is, to act according to the will of another fallible being, and submit, right or wrong, to power, where are we to stop?

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenPowerWrongStopWillRight

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

Mike Birbiglia

PeopleThinkDoingFindSometimes

After 30 novels, release day is still a thrill. It's always a little bittersweet, too.

Luanne Rice

DayAlwaysLittleBittersweetThrill

Principles of fair and equitable treatment included in many treaties are uncontroversial as general principles of good public governance.

Jose Angel Gurria

GoodPrinciplesFairGovernanceMany

To live in the light of a new day and an unimaginable and unpredictable future, you must become fully present to a deeper truth - not a truth from your head, but a truth from your heart; not a truth from your ego, but a truth from the highest source.

Debbie Ford

FutureLiveTruthHeartLightDay

I've made movies that I thought were okay, but then I was very good. And sometimes you're in a movie and you think, 'I wish more people saw that' - because you're good. And it just works out that the movie gets lost. But that's show business.

Christopher Walken

GoodBusinessPeopleThinkThought

Anyone who has worked with me knows that I am extremely action-oriented. I'm all about making things happen.

Cindy Gallop

I AmMeThings HappenHappenThings

My dream was to not work for anyone. There's only so many things I was good at - and how am I not going to work for anyone? I just don't want people telling me what to do.

Brittany Howard

WorkGoodPeopleMeDreamWant

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