Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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The sword within the scabbard keep,And let mankind agree.
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Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man
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[Someone] said that what I described as the Buddhist voice - the life-denying voice of censure and guilt - sounded to him very much like a Catholic voice. This is, indeed, a mystery, and it intrigues me, too.
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My mother would cry about my blindness and the hopelessness of my ever seeing, but I told her I wasn't sad. I believed God had something for me to do.
