Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it, we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love it.
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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If you want to do interesting software, you have to have a bunch of people do it, because the amount of software that one person can do isn't that interesting.
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In the '70s... there were rock players, and there were jazz players.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I actually like to sing on 'Rock Band.' I prefer to take the mic.
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Every university in America teaches 'Clockwork Orange.' I get fed up with it.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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The worst affected from corruption is the common man.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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Like most women, I hate when a guy tries to pick me up by saying, You are the hottest girl I've ever seen. It's totally unrealistic. There are beautiful women everywhere.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
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Loving you, until the day that 8 x 8 x 8 x 8 is 4.
