Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
Quotes to Explore
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I've been very active all my life. I was a combat instructor in the Israeli Army.
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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I'm getting fat... because my size, I put on 20 or 30 pounds, it doesn't show very much... I'm thinking about going back to work out in a very short time.
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In Windsor in the forties, and even up into the fifties and sixties, if you were black, you had to sit in the balcony of the theatres, and you couldn't buy property in most places.
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California has the highest number of illegal immigrants residing in its borders. The estimated number of illegal alien residents in California was about 2.2 million, or nearly 32 percent of the total number of illegal immigrants in the United States.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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We tend to talk about death as if it is losing a battle, but that assumes living is winning and dying is not.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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When you've got kids, you turn into Mom, and that's it.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
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Mister Cee's a legend, man.
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Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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In Tbilisi in 1990, I recall watching zealous Georgians smash statues of Lenin and Stalin. A few days earlier, though, in Moscow I had been invited to address the Red Army, as one of the first Brits to benefit from Glasnost. The subject they chose: The Cuban Missile Crisis.
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I'm in that, I guess, top 2 percent or something.
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I actually had a nickname as a player myself. When I played high school football in Texas, strong safety, they called me Choo Choo because they said I hit like a train.
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Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreaming— its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence.
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Mama gives you money for Sunday school, you trade yours for candy after church is through.
