"I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am."

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Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Alicia Keys

#Who I Am Quotes #Want Quotes #Stay Focused Quotes

“We don't need someone who can think. We need someone with enough digits to hold a pen.”
“I feel like after Money in the Bank in Phoenix, I almost took a nose dive, career-wise. I couldn't get the reigns on it, but I feel like I finally got the reigns on my career again, and that happens in entertainment.”
“There is something about participating; it is almost my religion. If the world is still here in 100 years, people will know the importance of participating, not just being spectators. Millions of small groups around the world, that don't necessarily all agree with one another, are made up of people who are not just sitting back waiting for someone to do things for them. No one can prove anything, but of course if I didn't believe it had some kind of power, I wouldn't be trying to do it.”
“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
“Often I think changes within my work have been seen as sudden changes or sharp changes, but for me they're not that sudden. They have been there in the studio, but not so much in public.”

Source : "A door to freedom" by Chris Ofili, www.theguardian.com. September 20, 2009.
“What is surprising is that their ideological opponents, the Marxists - the anti-liberals, the representatives of the oppressed working classes - believed in progress with at least as much passion as the liberals.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.97, Verso
“Never define people or situations in terms of their effect on you, unless you want to give them the power to make you feel that way.”
“God is not only the God of the sufferers but the God who suffers. ... It is said of God that no one can behold his face and live. I always thought this meant that no one could see his splendor and live. A friend said perhaps it meant that no one could see his sorrow and live. Or perhaps his sorrow is splendor. ... Instead of explaining our suffering God shares it.”

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