John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
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Life isn't perfect, of course, but we all know it's how you react to things that counts.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.
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If I ever feel that acting is just soul-sucking and I don't want to do it anymore, I could stop.
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Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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Maybe 'America first' means also that you have to deal with America first.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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After I directed, when I went back to being an actor, I was like, 'God, this is the life!' Because you only have to concentrate on one thing.
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I keep my heart and my soul and my spirit open to miracles.
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I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.
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I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.
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In this world, you can choose to be positive, or you can choose to be negative. You can choose to see things through a set of eyes that sees good, or you can choose to see things in life that aren't so good.
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Building followership and inspiration around female leadership is quite difficult to do.
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I'm not interested in making clothes that are not accessible.
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My father gave me one of those small, box-sized travel players when I was a kid and just a handful of records that he had. 'Zeppelin IV' was one. 'The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl,' which is just about the worst record ever - you can't hear anything, just screaming in the background. I think there was maybe, like, an Animals record.
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I hadn't even released my first proper single when I started to feel the strain of attention. But I don't believe that it was the attention that was giving me panic attacks. I think it was everything in my life colliding at the same time. It really did get to a serious point where I couldn't even walk down the street without getting the pain.
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All men seek one goal: success or happiness.
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Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
