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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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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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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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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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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It was really a very small company when I started and it changed very rapidly during those first periods.
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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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We can't just pay attention to women who look fantastic in a photograph, because there are a lot of people that have fantastic things to say that don't look like 25-year-old white models.
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I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film. I thought 'Lock Stock' was a good film because I think it was a one-off before it was imitated a hundred times.
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I started moving towards Serbia when I felt my country, Yugoslavia, was being taken away from me. My feeling of nationality was not as strong as those around me who were attaching themselves to these absurd new entities.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
