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Singer-songwriter

Alicia Keys, born on January 25, 1981, is a talented singer-songwriter known for her unique blend of R&B, soul, and classical music elements. Since her debut in 2001, she has captivated global audiences with her distinctive voice and emotional performances.

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“Every moment is beautiful; delicious even!”

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“We adjust ourselves to fit, to adapt to others’ ideas of who we should be. We shift ourselves not in sweeping pivots but in movements so tiny that they are hardly perceptible even in our view. Years can pass before we finally discover that after handing over our power, piece by small piece, we no longer even look like ourselves.”

Power Confidence Agency Self Efficacy

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“I wanted my first film to be something where I was surrounded by an amazing cast. I wanted to do something that was completely unexpected, totally out of the box, something that would blow people's minds, that the last thing on the planet earth they would ever think I would do would be it.”

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“I grew up in the theater, my mother is an actress, I was always around the world of acting and theater.”

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“I was always amazed the way people would come in looking one way and transform completely to the point where I couldn't recognize their language, their accent, the way they looked, their hair, their face even changed becoming so inside of the character.”

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“I personally feel that acting is not totally different from singing and being a musician.”

Feels Different Acting Musician Singing

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“What acting does bring that music doesn't bring for me is the opportunity is the opportunity to be completely different in every way from whom you normally are, the person that you are when you wake up in the morning is who you are in your life. But to take that and have the opportunity to be the complete opposite of that, is the excitement of it.”

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“My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.”

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“You've got to love what's yours.”

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“Empower us women and we will change this whole entire world.”

World Whole Empowering

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“When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.”

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“Something I've learned from people like U2, the Stones and Lenny Kravitz is that the grind of live shows is so necessary [to build your career].”

People Shows Careers Stones I've Learned Grind

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“I don't know if I'd go with an alien to space. I would have to feel the alien's vibe. I'm a vibe person.”

Ifs Knows Feels Persons Space Aliens

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“The element of fire to me is very powerful because of what it symbolizes, how it symbolizes a strength. It symbolizes something that's unstoppable. You can't get through it, you know.”

Knows Powerful Fire Elements Very Powerful Unstoppable

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“We believe Frederick Nietzsche couldn't have been more right when he said 'without music, life would be a mistake.”

Believe Has Beens Said Would Be Mistake Without Music Music Life

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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 have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.”

Bigs Bottom Legs

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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.”

Thinking Persons Kids Shapes Who You Are Good Person Being A Good Person

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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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“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.”

Feels Believe Choices My Own Convinced Guilty

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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.”

Firsts Play Remember Desire Five Four Dying

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“It's when we become afraid of everything and worried about everything that you are never going to reach your highest potential.”

Highest Worried

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“I am able to hang with the hardest, the baddest, the worst, and I'm able to hang with the most proper and be at ease. I'm able to hang with any skin colour, any belief. I just fit in everywhere.”

Able Belief Worst Fit Skins Hardest Ease Colour

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“I don't dream - only if I'm uncomfortable or I'm going through something.”

Ifs Dream Uncomfortable

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“I find myself to be truly primal and passionate. Everything I do comes from a primal place.”

Passionate Primal

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“I believe in the limitlessness of humans. We're capable of incredible things. At times, that realization is frightening.”

Believe Humans I Believe Capable Incredibles I Believe In Realization Frightening

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“I've learned that while I'd be a fool not to stay open to the advice and experiences of the smart, amazing people in my life, I also need to listen to what I have to say.”

People Needs Advice Fool Smart I've Learned Amazing People

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“I think I grew up really fast; I grew up in this really fast-paced business, and I never understood what it meant to take a break or take time off or recover, and I paid for it.”

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“I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.”

Thinking Needs Giving Believe Persons Stills Pieces Honest Judgment

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“I have solid decent people around me, and I believe that is all it is, because you will get destroyed if you have people bringing you down.”

People Ifs Believe I Believe Destroyed Decent

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“I've always been very private, maybe because I discovered my mother, who is a wonderful lady, is very emotional.”

Mother Wonderful Emotional Wonderful Lady

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“Music is funny. I shouldn't even ever talk about music, because you can have all the ideas in your head, and it never goes exactly the way that you think it's gonna go.”

Thinking Way Ideas Music Is

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“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.”

People Thinking Way Helping Turns Can Do Poverty Conflict Disease Slavery

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“People don't expect me to be as funny as I am.”

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“I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.”

People Thinking Feels Majority

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“How terrible would it have been if I had come out with some watered-down version of who I am? People fell in love with the real me, and I still feel blessed that that was how the journey began.”

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“My mom always said, "Don't date a guy who thinks he's prettier than you."”

Thinking Said Guy Mom My Mom

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“I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.”

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“I do feel like I owe something, but not to the industry. When you say "industry," I think of a group of people who don't really care much about you and treat you as a commodity. So, in that regard, I don't feel like I owe anything. But the people who've always been supportive of me and have always seen me for my greatest potential-those are the people who I feel like I owe something to. I feel like I am their voice. I owe it them to represent them in a way that they can be proud of.”

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“I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out.”

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“The artists who have inspired me the most in my life are the ones who have really had something to say and stand up for. That, to me, is part of being an artist-having the voice to express things that need to be verbalized and brought to light. Unfortunately, I don't think that's a priority for people, because the few artists who do have the nerve to take a stand for what they believe get shut down in a way.”

People Thinking Way Needs Believe Light Artist Voice Inspired Priorities Nerves Being An Artist

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“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.”

Knows Important Next Who You Are Spit

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“Here's my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.”

Knows Crazy Car Objects Sitting Treated Pet Washing Bending Licking Drive Me Crazy Peeves Sitting Up Pet Peeve Bending Over

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“All of us are different. That's what makes us interesting and special. I don't want to be anything like another person. I want to be totally myself and go against the grain, forge my own path. I've learned that being different is what makes you stand out. It makes everything so much more intriguing.”

Want Persons Different My Own Interesting Path Special I've Learned Grain Standing Out Being Different Intriguing

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“Fear is not a part of my vocabulary, actually, and I think that it's really made me a much smarter, braver for sure, person.”

Thinking Persons Made Smarter Vocabulary

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“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.”

Trying Mean Ends Values Focused The End Of The Day Being Real Stay Focused Really Positive

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“I play Beethoven and Bach. At the same time, Biggie is my dog.”

Play Dog My Dog Biggie

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“Our mission goes beyond commerce, it goes beyond technology. Our intent is to preserve music's importance in our lives, music is the language of love, of laughter, of heartbreak, of mystery. It's the world's true, true, without question, universal language.”

World Love Language Music Technology Our Lives Mystery Music Is Laughter Universal Importance Missions Preserves Commerce Universal Language Language Of Love

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“So we come together before you on this day, March 30th, 2015, with one voice in unity in the hopes that today will be another one of those moments in time, a moment that will forever change the course of music history.”

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“I'm discovering my sexual side, and exploring relationships. You know, sensual stuff. And I'm discovering a lot of sides of myself, stuff I've buried. So the music is also therapeutic, to come to terms with things. And I feel now like my head is in the right space.”

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Born: January 25, 1981
Known for: Singer-songwriter
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