Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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I was a dispatcher, flat-tire fixer, changed the oil, fixed the fan belts. There was nothing too good for me.
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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I always wanted to be a scientist. I don't really have any writer friends.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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I mean rappin' to me is easy, it's something you can do over a week.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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If you look at my record, I have a clean record.
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I'm not spending every second thinking about the World Cup, but it's always in my mind when I make choices and decisions.
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Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce.
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I think that probably all religions sound bizarre to the people who are not the practitioners of them.
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After the second and final time that I got hugely fat in my life and when I lost that weight six or seven years ago, I pretty much decided that I was going to stay in decent shape for the rest of my life.
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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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When I travel around the globe, I try as hard as I can to represent the NBA and the game of basketball to the best of my abilities. I get to go around the world and not only share the game but also my philanthropic work. Building a hospital in the Congo is one of the proudest achievements of my life.
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Hold onto your dreams 'cause they're always worth havin'. Hold on to your dreams til the day your life is said and done.
