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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One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.
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I would enjoy having dinner with the poet/playwright Derek Walcott.
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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 always thought I'd eventually learn how to draw really well, and despite constant evidence to the contrary, I just kept on trying. If you're too good at anything, you don't have to think about the process, whereas I feel like I spend my life with my head under the bonnet, trying to understand how everything works.
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More and more, even with a measure of success, I'm not sure what it is people are seeing when they see a movie I've made.
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An outsider can see some things much better.
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God gave me life to continue to do things that I would never have done.
