Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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Some of the most fun people I know are scientists.
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I've always wanted to do a travel show for people who never thought they could.
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People must be protected from prejudice against their person. But people cannot be protected from prejudice against their ideas - because otherwise we're all done.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.
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Some people really like to get into Twitter, but it's not my thing.
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I'm really excited about the prospect of deepening what is already a really strong relationship that I have with the people of Broward.
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I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
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I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.
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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism.
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When you're trying to bring the streets into rap to prove a point, then you already lost. You separate the two, and that ain't to be played with. You've got people that lost their lives and people that are doing real time. If we gon' make music, let's just make music.
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There's more people to ignore in New York or Boston than there are in Milwaukee, but I would still ignore them, probably.
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Men are only too clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
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Greenleaf' is about family, but also about faith and failure and real human life.
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Beauty is subjective: Bette Davis wasn't beautiful, but she was more than beautiful.
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I really like ESPN. They do a great job.
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I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
