Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
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I always point out to my Passover guests that the Hebrews were not living in isolation. They were at the crossroads of several great, elaborate cultures with their own mythology and religion and art and architecture and cultural belief. In fact, so many of the mythologies of the world describe the same events, just from different points of view.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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Modesty is my best quality.
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I have to make sure that I make good choices and that if I put my name on it, it's a high-quality endeavor and that I have time to be a human being.
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Even an animal, if you show genuine affection, gradually trust develops... If you always showing bad face and beating, how can you develop friendship?
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Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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Everyone thought I was going to die like a year later, they didn't know. So I helped educate sports, and then the world, that a man living with HIV can play basketball. He's not going to give it to anybody by playing basketball.
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I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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As I went to college, I went into radio and television. Now I suppose most people think that's one step ahead of basket weaving as a major in college, but it was part of the journalism department.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I'm from the school of, 'if you want more, you have to require more from yourself.'
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.
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But I have had the luxury of working on good films with great people.
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People in Tulsa are totally friendly; the crowds are very nice.
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Even logical positivists are capable of love.
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We just wanna be the happy bums that we are. That's all.
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Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.
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Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
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My favorite sequels are basically all Mike Myers films - 'Wayne's World 2,' 'Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me,' 'Shrek 2.' Anything he does, it's best the second time around. He needs to do 'So I Married an Axe Murderer 2.'
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Now some folks say that we should be glad for what we have. Tell me, would you be happy in Village Ghetto Land?
