Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
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In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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No 17-year-old is just one thing, especially in this day and age. Kids are into all sorts of things.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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I need a little bass and I don't even need that crazy bass to break your face. I just want it to sound good when I have my favorite song.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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I've never been able to say I've been influenced by a list of artists I like because I like thousands and thousands and I've been influenced in some way by all of them.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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When George W. Bush entered office, the national debt was $5 trillion. When he left, it was $10 trillion. I think the administration spent too much money.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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At the Cruiserweight Classic finale, I said... I don't know if people had looked it up, or if they had heard it before, but it was an old Zen proverb. 'Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment, you chop wood, carry water.' It can be interpreted a lot of ways, but for the most part it's about staying in the moment.
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I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I don't think a reggaeton song will break again like 'Gasolina' did.
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Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
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I love teaching; I love little kids.
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Or perhaps in Slytherin, you'll make your real friends. Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.
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I am different - if you can find another like me, then I will buy you dinner!
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I think we did our first session in 1958. There were no black background singers - there were only white singers. They weren't even called background singers; they were just called singers. I don't know who gave us the name 'background singers,' but I think that came about when The Blossoms started doing background.
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I believe that the Internet is the information highway. I'm religious about this. I don't think it's cable television.
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A lack of communication between citizens and policemen is real stuff.
