Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I haven't done Vine in a long time, and when I first started, I just did stuff that I thought was funny.
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All the girls today want to be famous, but they haven't earned their spurs.
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I've never been bored in my life, man. I've never been bored or lonely. Are you kidding? No way! I'm an orchestrator, a musician, a producer. I love everything. I've studied languages from Farsi to Greek to French, Swedish, Russian... How can you get bored?
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I want to make sure the fine-dining restaurant has a clientele who is local as much as tourists and foodies.
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If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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You must respect people, and you must respect money. My father said to me: 'When you respect money, money will respect you.'
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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I moved into this neighborhood, and I was walking on this beach with my kids, and we came across a sign that said, 'Water's polluted, no swimming.' And I didn't have any answers.
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You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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There are 3 billion women in the world, so there are 3 billion ways to be a feminist.
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Every story makes a promise to the reader. Actually, two promises, one emotional and one intellectual, since the function of stories is to make us both feel and think.
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I grew up on a farm and my grandfather quit school when he was 12, but when it came to common sense and animals, he was the smartest person I've ever met, before or since. He taught me that to touch an animal is an earned privilege. It's not a right.
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It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America.
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Most of the centenarians whom I have been able to see have been so defective mentally that all that can be studied in them are the physical qualities and functions.
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I personally don't believe in aliens. But, I do believe that there is something out there that is accountable for all these mysterious things that are going on: I think it is a spiritual thing not a material thing.
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There's a Place in the Sun, where there's hope for everyone.
