Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm kind of lax about hair in general. I stopped shaving my armpits in part to experiment with pheromones, but also because I just didn't feel like shaving them anymore.
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But I think we need the international market.
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Hispanic unemployment is higher than the national average and when the federal government is killing small businesses and killing jobs it is hurting the future of the Hispanic community and we need to carry that message.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.
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I have been constantly shaping and reshaping my career. I laid a foundation by doing respectful work in all media. And I am happy with what I have done.
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Quite a few musicians came to our house. And my ma took me to hear many more, hoping to encourage in me a love of music. But she wouldn't consent to my having music lessons, for she feared I might end up as she had done - unable to play except from paper.
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Sure I'm sad I've never made it to being a big superstar, but I feel absolutely no bitterness. I came out of a town with 250 people and what I've done is extraordinary.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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The Re-Up Gang mixtapes are going down in history, man. I still listen to them in my car, and the 'Hell Hath No Fury' album. I tell people all the time that I'll never make another album like that one again. Never!
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
