Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to wait six months to purchase a fuel efficient automobile made from overseas.
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One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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Combining sounds that are from another universe with the classic songwriting structures never gets old for me.
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I think that when we look at something that's well acted and a story that's well told, it allows us to be a mirror of who we are as human beings and as a culture, and offers a glimpse of where we're headed.
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We come into relationships often very much identified with our needs. I need this, I need security, I need refuge, I need friendship. And all of relationships are symbiotic in that sense. We come together because we fulfill each others' needs at some level or other.
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I think every woman should have a one-night stand. If it's done right, it can be liberating.
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Every parent wants to see their kids excel.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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When you look at where the Democratic field is going relative to foreign policy, they are increasingly moving away from a policy of pre-emptive self-defense that the president has adopted since September 11.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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I just happen to have one of those skill sets that allows me to work in my underwear.
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I got through with my ability to mimic others and make people laugh. I swaggered through life, but, in reality, I lived in fear pretty much every day. I acted like a completely normal person, and I suppose I was good at it. But, inside, it was a very different story.
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I'm going to try to tell stories and let each tale skate its own way into dark or light territory as the needs of the story steer me.
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Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'.
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I just thank God for all of the blessings.
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I listen a lot to rap, and I'm inspired to take it, to use it in another way, to get the message across.
