Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I'm very content.
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Y'know what? This is what I go by: It doesn't matter how good-looking a guy is, it just depends on his personality. If a guy can make you laugh and make fun of you, then that's what would win me over. So, yeah.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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My own conviction is, confirmed by a very close study of parochial registers, that some of the very best blood in England is to be found among the tradesmen of our county towns.
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My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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With reporting, if you work hard, you can usually pull something out. But writing humor doesn't respond to working hard, necessarily. I mean, you could just sit there and look at the page all day and maybe something will come.
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America's got amazing presentation, especially New York - the most potent, strongest, concentrated, amazing presentation.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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I had a 100 percent voting record with the NRA, but I don't believe in bazookas in our schools.
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I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.
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Sure God's all powerful, but does he have lips?
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I never read 'The Cinderella Complex' - I'm too afraid that my name might be in it.
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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.
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If they ever let me in the ring with him (Cassius Clay), I'm liable to be put away for murder.
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Recently I was tenderly hugging one of our precious little five-year-old granddaughters and said to her, "I love you, sweetheart." She responded rather blandly: "I know." I asked, "How do you know that I love you?" Because! You're my grandfather!
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You can't hear me? Read my lips!
