Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.
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Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
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You get to a point where it's like you can't really do anything right, and people will pick on you for whatever decisions you make, so I just try and take no notice and get on with my music.
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I want any kid who listens to my music to see that I am confident with all elements of my personality that I can't change.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
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I like my world to be calm.
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I think I've got some more big plays left in me.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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My father was an absolutely wonderful human being. From him I learned to always assume positive intent. Whatever anybody says or does, assume positive intent.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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Only the really young are fearless, have the optimism, the romanticism to take unimaginable risks.
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It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.
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And if there's love, you can do without happiness too. Even with sorrow, life is sweet.
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Once we reach a certain age, we tend to recalibrate our expectations. We expect less from the world once we've seen it up close.
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The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular estimation for wisdom and virtue, are complete sceptics in religion.
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The way the world is right now, we need more love.
