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I've stepped more into my womanhood, I'm a mother now, I'm having a beautiful relationship as a wife and as a friend. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#friend #having #i #into #more

My mom is definitely my rock. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#definitely #mom #rock

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

— Alicia Keys

#drag #me #mother #reading #she

I do listen to other music though, and try to pick up what is good. ↗

— Nusrat F. A. Khan

#i #i do #listen #music #other

Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#gotten #i #literally #me #off

We're all going to change. Otherwise, it's boring. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#change #going #otherwise

When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. ↗

— Alicia Keys

#backward #chords #experimenting #favorite #first

Bahrainis are better off than many other Arabs. We have a welfare state, everybody gets a salary whether they have a job or not. Electricity and food are subsidized; school and healthcare are free. And we don't differentiate between Bahrainis and foreigners. We are very proud of that. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#better #better off #between #differentiate #electricity

I don't order laws, I propose them. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#laws #order #propose #them

If people have done something wrong then they should be held accountable. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#done #held #people #should #something