Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
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These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The 1950s would be my ideal decade because I'm actually very traditional; I enjoy being at home, and I'm a complete nester.
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Most high-level models that I've ever met are actually well-travelled; they're cultured, and no guy laying a cheesy line on them is actually going to impact their world.
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If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
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When you live in L.A., it is easy to stay fit, as the weather is amazing.
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I would say Hope Solo is competitive.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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The Bible says, 'Judge not lest ye be judged.' Our lives are supposed to be hospitals, not courtrooms.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
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Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.
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I'd like to get some new clothes, but I can't find a Big and Short store.
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It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.
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People talk about retiring. I never said that r-word. People though I went away after the Olympic Games. I took time off to do something I've always wanted to be - a mother.
Gail Devers -
When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.
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When I was nine, I started reading Homer. I would get up at four o'clock in the morning, before I had to go to school, in third or fourth grade, and, for several hours, I would read 'The Iliad' or 'The Odyssey.'
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Kenny Burrell is a great musician and his music has helped to make me what I am today.
