Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

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• I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.

  

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• It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues?

  

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• I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.

  

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• I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.

  

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• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

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• I want to have my desperate need for personal success shrunk, not enlarged.

  

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• I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character.

  

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• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  

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• I was quite good at football once, although other than that my speciality would be maths. I'm great at sudokus and find all the spin-off games pretty easy too.

  

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• In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.

  

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• A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

  

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• There have been times in my life when I felt compelled to write things down as a matter of therapy, but whatever I kept about those days, I shredded. It was too personal.

  

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• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

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• Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.

  

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• Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.

  

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• Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.

  

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• Any reaction is better than none.

  

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• I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

  

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• I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

  

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• Music comes from the heart and should reach the heart again.

  

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• The job of Seoul mayor is as important as that of president.

  

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• Ideally, when you play a character, she goes away with half of you, and you go away with half of her. And you learn something.

  

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• It's a difficult question of relations between people.

  

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• When I wrote the words and I have the music, I felt, wow, you know, this has got to be right. I got to sing it right.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Music
  • Words
  • Right