Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
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When think about the Frank Oceans of the world, it's not like we don't have gay men within the hip-hop community.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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In Hollywood they're getting younger, but believe me, it's not the food. It's the plastic surgery.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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I had a stalker break into my house a couple times. They didn't leave any fingerprints or take anything - I was being followed.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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The mind is a monkey, hopping around from thought to thought, image to image. Rarely do more than a few seconds go by in which the mind can remain single-pointed, empty.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Musical theater is an American genre. It started really, in America, as a combination of jazz and operetta; most of the great musical theater writers in the golden era are American. I think that to do a musical is a very American thing to me.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I believe in the American Dream because I have lived the American Dream.
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This must be such a relief for the TV executives managing a business in decline, suffering from a thousand cuts from social media and other new platforms. Trump arrived on the scene as a kind of manna from hell.
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Neither Neil Armstrong nor Michael Collins had a mental breakdown after returning from the moon.
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In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'
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A picnic may well be a metaphor for life. The essentials for happiness are the right company, moderate if sanguine expectations and a reasonable standard of physical sustenance and comfort, the whole being bedeviled by the belief that there is always something better to be had if only one presses on.
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All my life, I wanted to sound like myself. I never wanted to sound like anybody else.
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MTV was such a great training for me. I did live interviews with everyone from Michael Jackson to Madonna.
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It's up to to you to perfect that gift that you've been given. Put your spirit into that song. Focus on the words that you are singing. Get into the experience that you are singing about and sing your heart out.
