Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.
Barry Bonds -
With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
Ice Cube -
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.
Saffron Burrows -
There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
Jack Kemp -
I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
Walter Salles -
Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
Gabrielle Union
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I like Thomas Jefferson, though he intimidated me. I thought he would have been very tough to be around. I don't know if he had such a sense of humor.
Maira Kalman -
The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.
Isaac D'Israeli -
One of the issues facing us today is that there are countries where there is a serious lack of resources, the standards of living are very low, and this creates a fundamental unease and discomfort in entire populations.
Ralph Merkle -
It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
Carla Bley -
I'm curvy.
Camila Alves -
One of the duties of fortitude is to keep the weak from receiving injury; another, to check the wrong motions of our own souls; a third, both to disregard humiliations, and to do what is right with an even mind. All these clearly ought to be fulfilled by all Christians, and especially by the clergy.
Saint Ambrose
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
Daniel Espinosa -
Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.
Orhan Pamuk -
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.
Dag Hammarskjold -
I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
Taya Kyle -
The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
Oscar Wilde
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I like all things natural, and I love being Indian. So clothes-wise, I love wearing Indian. Does my wearing a salwar kameez instead of a dress make me less of an actor, less of a person?
Vidya Balan -
I like to talk on the cell when I do interviews. That way, I double my chances of getting brain cancer: from the cell phone, and from the questions.
Garry Shandling -
In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
Ram Shriram -
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan Williams -
Handicaps are really to be used another way to benefit yourself and others.
Stevie Wonder