Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth
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Our curses on them that boil the eggs too hard! What use is an egg that is hard to any person on earth?
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I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.
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Scientists didn't discover the noble gas helium - the second most common element in the universe - on Earth until 1895. And they thought it existed in minute quantities only, until miners found a huge underground cache in Kansas in 1903.
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The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.
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I grew up on Raffi. That was my first impression of what a rock star was.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Do what you really want to do. That's why God put you on this earth.
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Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.
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Because I find writing painful, I try to get it over with as fast as possible. But I write every day, or I lose the thread.
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There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.
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The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went away across it, so far that you could not see where they went; they ended in nothing at all.
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I feel like I'm constantly falling behind. I feel like every day I'm out of the office I'm falling behind.
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There is something in age that ever, even in its own despite, must be venerable, must create respect and to have it ill treated, is to me worse, more cruel and wicked than anything on earth.
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I feel like at 50 I've decided to become a rock star, which is, you know, typical of me. I always seem to work backwards.
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My favorite show tune has got to be Stephen Sondheim's 'I Remember Sky.' It's probably the saddest song of all time; I sing it to myself in the mirror. No, I am kidding. That's the joke.
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I've never been comfortable working live, and I'm still not. I was always more music-oriented and less star-oriented, which is why I've never been comfortable on big stages in big halls.
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If you have become bitter and sour, it is because when God gave you a blessing you hoarded it. Yet if you had poured it out to Him, you would have been the sweetest person on earth. If you are always keeping blessings to yourself and never learning to pour out anything “to the Lord,” other people will never have their vision of God expanded through you.
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The institutional scene in which American man has developed has lacked that accumulation from intervening stages which has been so dominant a feature of the European landscape.
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Nipples aren't killing children. They should be more concerned about the wars that are happening. There's so much violence in the world. There are so many legitimate things to be upset about besides nipples.
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Every day I searched for the star That never was in the sky Now I see that star is on the earth
