Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.
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I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.
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God only expects man and woman to be together and to be legally married, only if they so are in love with each other.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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If you get labeled a winner, people come along for the ride. Might as well enjoy it and they should too.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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It's double talk and double standards. It's like, be honest, but don't be too honest. Look fresh-faced and young, but don't tell us how you got there. God forbid you have plastic surgery, even though we're telling you, 'Oh, you look old.' Be a career woman, but also, why aren't you having kids? Are you some kind of cold shrew?
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I enjoy a character who sticks to her guns, who's always challenging herself. That's something I can relate to.
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I was brought up to think a lot about food and have respect for it, both as medicine and something to eat and enjoy.
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to smile, not to be depressed. Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don't cry. I say maybe it's meant to be.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.
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If you enjoy the fragrance of a rose, you must accept the thorns which it bears.
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I'm thrilled I can make a living doing something I enjoy.
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As far as criticism, I don't mind critics. I mean, I wrote for 'Rolling Stone' for a hot minute. I like criticism. I enjoy criticism. The thing I don't like is cruelty for cruelty's sake. You don't have to be a jerk to say something negative. You can say something in the negative sense and have class.
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When you work with Ray Charles, Billy Eckstine and Frank Sinatra, and you tell them to jump without a net, you better know what you're talking about. Thank God I was ready for it.
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I am God's wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ.
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Every man's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.
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Each one prays to God according to his own light.
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In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.
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Before my accidents, there were ten thousands things I could do. I could spend the rest of my life dwelling on the things that I had lost, but instead I chose to focus on the nine thousand I still had left.
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I've never really been a television watcher and watched comedies, and I have gotten a number of invitations to be on television as the dad.
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It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.
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Other human beings have a right to peace and happiness that is equal to our own; therefore we have a responsibility to help those in need.
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I feel thankful to God, first and foremost, allowing me to enjoy this 'smell the roses' kind of thing.
