Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

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• Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

  

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• Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.

  

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• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

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• Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

  

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• I start the day with oatmeal with vanilla almond milk. If I don't, I'm dying by noon and eating everything in sight. On-set, I avoid crap and pack soup and salad. I cook pork chops or turkey tacos for dinner.

  

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• A Nicklaus Design golf course is done by the guys in my company that I work with, that have been trained in my vision, and they do what they think I might do. They might come in the office and ask me questions and I'd certainly answer their questions, but I'm not involved in the site visits or anything else.

  

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• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

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• I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.

  

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• I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

  

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• Kids are learning to play. That's why we're seeing an emergence. That's why we're seeing the Under-17s and Under-20s doing better in international football.

  

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• You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.

  

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• Power is, in its nature, encroaching; and such is the human make that men who are vested with a share of it are generally inclined to take more than it was intended they should have.

  

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• The Democratic Party went far to the left, I think, and left some of us stranded on the beach, so we went to the Republican Party.

  

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• The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'

  

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• I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.

  

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• It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.

  

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• See, I don't watch reality television anymore. I watched a little bit of it for awhile, but I found it turned my soul into a black sludge, and I just did not find it healthy or good for me at all, because I would watch it and be disgusted, disgusted.

  

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• Because, also the world of showbiz is not just black and white, good and bad.

  

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• You have to be very careful how you insert new stuff, 'cause people want to hear the old stuff. It's like cooking, you know? You can't put too many peppers into the eggs... otherwise it's going to be distasteful.

  

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• I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

  

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• Even though some of the films I've made haven't been particularly commercial, I don't find them failures.

  

  Don Johnson
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• As a matter of fact, wherever I find that law exists, I will not perform in that state or in that part of the world.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • World
  • Law
  • Matter