Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

Stevie Wonder

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• To be thrown onto the stand-up stage is an experience that you cannot fathom until you're actually there, because there's no place to go, and everyone is looking at you and you can't even see them because of the lights. And yet you have to manage to start talking and be funny on top of it.

  

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• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  

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• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

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• Especially for me, growing up in such a small town in the middle of nowhere, the desire to be away was incredible. I wanted to see new lands, meet new people from the city, and meet people that were in much less fortunate situations than I was, so that I could be more appreciative of my present. At least I had food on the table.

  

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• I've personally never had the chance to go to Lambeau Field.

  

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• The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.

  

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• I'm not a Man U fan at all, but I can't get enough of Rooney. What a joy to watch!

  

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• More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.

  

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• For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.

  

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• A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.

  

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• Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

  

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• Wikileaks didn't help confidence with American administrations because of conversations made public so easily.

  

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• As President Trump quickly moved to limit immigration, civil rights, and environmental protections, I felt fear for my young children, and guilt, too - as if I'd somehow betrayed the unspoken contract all parents make to give our children a better life than ourselves.

  

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• The Fourth of July should be celebrated with big hearts.

  

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• There is a whole industry in America of people who want to write, and those who teach it. Even if the students don't end up writing, what's good about them taking the courses is, they become great readers, learning to appreciate the writing.

  

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• I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.

  

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• I feel I am privileged to express a hope. The hope is this: that we shall have peace throughout the world: that we shall abolish wars, and settle all international differences at the conference table: that we shall abolish all atom and hydrogen bombs, before they abolish us first.

  

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• I wanted to be a vet before I got into comedy, but then once I found out how much gore goes into that job, I wanted nothing to do with it.

  

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• For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why.

  

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• White people, who for a long time live alone with Natives, get into the habit of saying what they mean, because they have no reason or opportunity for dissimulation, and when they meet again their conversation keeps the Native tone.

  

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• I keep my perfume in the fridge. If someone sees me in the morning pushing aside the eggs to grab my perfume, it might look a little odd, but it's so refreshing to spray cold fragrance on your skin.

  

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• For the most part, I feel really comfortable with what I've given to the people. I want to give it to them again.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • People
  • Give
  • Comfortable