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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Spiritual

“We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.”

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Grateful

“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.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Spiritual

“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.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Creative

“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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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Spiritual

“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.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Philosophical

“I think what happens in the world, and I think it's part human nature and part programming, is we become an emulation of what we see. We become clones of each other.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Spiritual

“I think being really connected to a higher power, of having a spirituality to me, has been really good for me and I pray all the time.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Funny

“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.”

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Creative

“I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.”

Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Love

“Rarely, I think, do you find a relationship where you can experience things equally.”

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Alicia Keys Singer, Songwriter, Actress
Regretful

“Musicians used to be way more instrumental just in providing a soundtrack to what's going on in the world. And it's also important to state what we think. There's like this fear for their career, if they have anything intelligent to say about politics. And that's really messed up.”

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Ali Banisadr Artist
Creative

“Think about the way you go surfing on the Internet - you go from one thing to another. You can't really concentrate. I can't sit and read 10 pages on my computer. You'll read and then all of a sudden part of your brain is like, "What about that? ...You're not reading the whole book. You're reading fragments. Even though I think it's bad, I think it's interesting too, because that's the way my brain works.”

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Ali Banisadr Artist
Creative

“When I am working on a painting, everything that I am thinking about at the time - be it current events, the books I am reading, personal events, influences, emotions, etc. - all find their way into my work.”

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Ali Banisadr Artist
Creative

“Painting is a way of thinking visually, so whatever is happening with me at the time gets reflected in the work.”

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Ali Koehler Artist
Grateful

“I think music is just a great place to focus your energy and your feelings. If you're young, you can take all that stuff that you feel so intensely about - especially these days, but I'm not going to go there - but to take all those feelings and put them into music was such a big deal for me to be able to play punk rock songs. It was such a release for me. It's a good thing for parents to support that.”

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Ali Koehler Artist
Spiritual

“I like to look up the formal definitions of words that I'm already familiar with and sometimes you find out a word means something you didn't already think of, you know? I looked up the definition of "upset" and it was something like, "To be filled with uneasiness and anxiety," and I feel like that all the time, so I was like, "That's appropriate." But also it's a name that when you hear it, you wouldn't assume that it's any certain type of band. It kind of has room to grow into and make it redefine the word.”

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Alexander Wilson Ornithologist, Poet
Wise

“Think for thyself one good idea, but known to be thine own, is better than a thousand gleaned from fields by others sown.”