Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
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A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
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It was all encompassing and so hard for me to do any classes or take up any hobbies - I'd wake up with this gnawing feeling in my stomach that I wasn't doing what I was meant to do.
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Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
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I'm trying to stay as healthy as possible but there's no pressure to be really skinny. No. That's just a bit wrong.
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For graduate school I ended up going to the University of Iowa, which is, of course, the best graduate writing program in the country.
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You'll always find me at a good sushi spot. Once, at a restaurant, a cook came out from the kitchen and asked for a picture with me. That was flattering.
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The real power of comics is writing as you draw.
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
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While I'm singing complete gibberish to my son when he's in his crib, I'll occasionally think, 'This song I'm making up is actually pretty good.'
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They have repeated their arguments but the substantive position has not changed.
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I think the way the audience takes the Indian film-star is a little different from the way the audience takes the Western star there. We are considered like demi-gods here, and the reason is not because we are better or good, but because there is no other mode of entertainment in India.
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I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap.
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Prejudice comes from being in the dark; sunlight disinfects it.
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Healing is not necessarily about curing. As your inner light grows - anything is possible.
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What matters is deciding in your heart to accept another person completely. When you do that, it is always the first time and the last.
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Records are one thing, and obviously, without hit songs, you don't have the opportunity to do your shows. But my live show has always been my selling tool.
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Our first No. 1 was 'Why' and we waited two years to have another one. It felt like forever, and now I feel like I'm celebrating one every few months, which I love
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I'd seen Elijah [Wood], when I was a little boy, in The Good Son. And then, I was a huge fan of The Lord of the Rings. It took awhile to get over that whole, "That's Elijah Wood - Frodo, from The Lord of the Rings." I was a mega fan of that. I went to the all-day screenings of the director's cut, where you could see the really long versions of all three movies, in one day.
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We have to be respectful to one another.
