Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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As a legal matter, my mother is an American citizen by birth.
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Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I know I am a writer; it is the only thing I am sure of.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy.
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That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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The only routine with me is no routine at all.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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I would love to be able to play some characters on television that are similar to some of the indie film roles I've done, that have been so close to my heart.
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The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.
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There is no conservative party left in Washington. Conservative thinkers and writers who were to be the watchdogs of orthodoxy have been as vigilant in policing party deviations from principle as was Cardinal Law in collaring the predator-priests of the Boston archdiocese.
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The right to bear arms? What about the right to live?
