"I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand."

-- Alicia Keys

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“If by chance some day you're not feeling well and you should remember some silly thing I've said or done and it brings back a smile to your face or a chuckle to your heart, then my purpose as your clown has been fulfilled.”
“If you start to focus on your opponent then you see so much quality in your opponents and weaknesses in your own side. You start to put doubts in your mind. You need to respect your opponents but that's it, no more.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Doubt is a necessary precondition tomeaningful action. Fear is the great mover in the end.”
“When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.”
“Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.”
“Madness, provided it comes as the gift of heaven, is the channel by which we receive the greatest blessings... the men of old who gave things their names saw no disgrace or reproach in madness; otherwise they would not have connected it with the name of the noblest of arts, the art of discerning the future, and called it the manic art... So, according to the evidence provided by our ancestors, madness is a nobler thing than sober sense... madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.”
“I don't want to be a director. I want to direct. There's a difference.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Economic growth won't feed a growing population living on this finite planet”

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