Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Men whose sense of taste is destroyed by sickness, sometimes think honey sour. A diseased eye does not see many things which do exist, and notes many things which do not exist. The same thing frequently takes place with regard to the force of words, when the critic is inferior to the writer.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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By nature, I'm an optimistic person. No one believes it, but I am.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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A lasting two-state solution requires two credible partners, and not just one side - Israel - taking superficial steps simply to placate world opinion.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I was about ten when I first got laughs playing Fagin in 'Oliver' at junior school in Offerton. It was the best feeling in the world, and I didn't want it to end.
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To turn our hearts to our fathers is to search out the names of our deceased ancestors and to perform the saving ordinances in the temple for them. This will forge a continuous chain between us and our forefathers eventually all the way back to Father Adam and Mother Eve.
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What matters about people is their magnetic leadership, their aptitude for helping those following in their footsteps, and their passion - how they choose to package that is their prerogative.
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Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
