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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I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.
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The more visible signs of protest are gone, but I think there is a realization that the tactics of the late sixties are not sufficient to meet the challenges of the seventies.
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Richard Lewis has this incredible ability to look like he's just... you know it's an act that's been honed. What you have to do in standup is create spontaneity, somehow; even though you've done this act a million times, you gotta look like you're almost just thinking of it now, to make it entertainer.
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Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
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Don't kill the golden goose.
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Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
