Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
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Advertising, music, atmospheres, subliminal messages and films can have an impact on our emotional life, and we cannot control it because we are not even conscious of it.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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You lay out a plan and - say a three-year plan or a two-year plan - and say, 'This is what we can do. We can do the transportation packages, like the highway bill and the water bill, and we can do some of these other areas - a farm bill - whatever it is, we lay out a schedule, and we put that committee to work to do that.'
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I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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A power struggle is always better than absolute power.
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My own cabaret is constantly evolving with what is occurring in my own life, so motherhood is a natural addition to it.
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A frowning face can't bring out the beauty that you are.
