Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
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The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I discovered Einstein said the same thing about his celebrated theories of relativity that writers say about their work when he said he didn't have any feelings of personal possession of these ideas. Once they were out there, they came from somewhere else. And that's exactly the feeling when you write. You don't feel possessive about it.
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I never really learned photography.
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We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.
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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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The key is allowing your partner to be who they are and not having expectations that really have nothing to do with the person you married.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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You have to struggle to stay alive and be of use as long as you can.
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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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If your access to health care involves your leaving work and driving somewhere and parking and waiting for a long time, that's not going to promote healthiness.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job.
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Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
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I don't feel that I've had a life of abuse or that I am a victim in any way. My life is pretty typical of a lot of Americans of my generation who grew up in the sixties in families like mine that were sort of unconventional.
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Europe in its infinite wisdom decided to deal with this bankruptcy by loading the largest loan in human history on the weakest of shoulders … What we’ve been having ever since is a kind of fiscal waterboarding that has turned this nation into a debt colony.
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You tend to be afraid when someone seems foreign to you. But if you aren't careful, that can lead to bigotry.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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What really dissatisfies in American civilisation is the want of the interesting, a want due chiefly to the want of those two great elements of the interesting, which are elevation and beauty.
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Most people would rather stay home and watch Casablanca for the fourth time or the 10th time on Turner Classic Movies than go see Matrix 12 or whatever the hell the flavor of the month is.
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Families buying dog food now, starvation roams the streets. Babies die before their born, infected by the grief.
