Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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I'm quite fluent in Telugu now, but there's a difference between talking and dubbing. While dubbing, the diction must be in sync with the emotion in the scene and would impact my performance.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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America faces a new race that has awakened.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Ethiopia has always held a special place in my own imagination and the prospect of visiting attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African. Meeting the emperor himself would be like shaking hands with history.
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Sometimes when you play a character, you can feel it in your body. And I felt like I had characteristics of my dog: the way Webster moves, the way he holds his head. I kind of adapted it into this part unconsciously.
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Oh, pity the poor glutton Whose troubles all begin In struggling on and on to turn What's out into what's in.
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I guess I'm a Gemini through and through, but I'm mercurial. I get bored doing the same things.
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I don't live for poetry. I live far more than anybody else does.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
