Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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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 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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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I've always had a thing for old movies, old Hollywood. I've always just loved watching Marilyn Monroe and Greta Garbo. In all of those old movies from the '40s and '50s, women put themselves together so well, with a little bit of drama and elegance. That was fascinating to me growing up.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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People think I must have been turning cartwheels on the night I sealed the movie deal - which was only two days after sealing the book deal - but I was really quite terrified.
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I'm a proud family man.
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The history of Montana has been of the government giving land grants to people that could not possibly turn it into decent farms. And that's destroying their lives. So they don't see the government as something that's out there to help them.
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The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
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Heaven help the man who kicks the man who has to crawl.
