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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It's a lovely thing to be able to sing.
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I've had trouble gaining access to certain people I'd really love to interview because they're worried I'll make fun of them. I'm a pretty private and self-conscious person, so I relate to that concern!
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With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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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.
