Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I suppose illustration tends to live in the streets, rather than in the hermetically sealed atmosphere of the museum, and consequently it has come to be taken less seriously.
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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It is part of my responsibility as a bridge builder to speak the truth about what's great about America, what we've done right, and what our less glorious moments. And many people feel that the Iraq adventure, for example, has been one of our less glorious moments.
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I think it's just important to be able to keep things to myself and to have these moments that can't be - where I don't put them out and feel like they could be misunderstood, you know?
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.
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You know sometimes when you're in a really bad mood and you're not sure why? That's how I get sometimes.
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My mom was such a strong character. I don't want to say she was like a man, but she was tough.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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I want to avoid injuries by running only road.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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A lot of fighters come from Brazil. We've been doing this for long, long years.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal.
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Marriage equality is about more than just marriage. It's about something greater. It's about acceptance.
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Nirvana was huge, but it didn't appeal to everyone.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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You know, for most of its life bluegrass has had this stigma of being all straw hats and hay bales and not necessarily the most sophisticated form of music. Yet you can't help responding to its honesty. It's music that finds its way deep into your soul because it's strings vibrating against wood and nothing else.
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
