Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes

There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

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• I consider myself as a free spokesman for the people.

  

  Dalai Lama
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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
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• I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
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• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
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• I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.

  

  Hailee Steinfeld
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• As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Home
  • Society
  • Girl

• Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Period
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  • Oil

• One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.

  

  Ted Lyons
  • Home
  • High
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• I think a person has to just be herself.

  

  Pat Nixon
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• A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • Boy
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  • Ice

• If there were Israeli attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities, it makes it certain there would be a reprisal attack against the United States at some point.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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  • Facilities

• Even if you buy a Finnish, Korean or American phone - it will be Ericsson on the inside.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • American
  • You
  • Inside

• To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Management
  • Go
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• Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
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• I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.

  

  Larry Holmes
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• To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • War
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• If you are only big in China, you are only a local Chinese company.

  

  Wang Jianlin
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  • Chinese
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• To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

  

  Garry Disher
  • Writing
  • You
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• I had a girlfriend before I ever had a boyfriend, but it was just a phase.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Girlfriend
  • Boyfriend

• People want to see comedies where characters aren't sacrificed for the jokes.

  

  Jenny Slate
  • People

• Being happy with less is what makes a great human being, not a big house with marble floors, or everyone knowing who you are.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
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  • Happy
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• The General has got the gout, and Mrs. Maitland the jaundice. Miss Debary, Susan, and Sally, all in black, but without any stature, made their appearance, and I was as civil to them as their bad breath would allow me.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Bad
  • Black

• There're songs to make you smile, there're songs to make you sad. But with a happy song to sing it never seems as bad.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Bad
  • Happy
  • Song