John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
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You can always think that we're old and not innovative, but there is no company that can limp on for 139 years without being creative and having the genes to change.
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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.
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Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.
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I'm a reclusive weirdo.
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I just do what I'm here for and that's to make that music.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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I've been very blessed in my personal life and in my career and I have never been ungrateful for what I have.
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Am I not correct in saying that Iran has never voiced that they are developing a nuclear weapon, nor do they have any intention of using a nuclear weapon against the United States? That's never actually been voiced. I don't know where that has come from, but it hasn't been from Iran.
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The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.
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Action is character.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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I am certainly an ought and not a must.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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What again I tell my people is that no matter how much you know, it's never enough. You will always discover, after the fact, that you've missed something.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft, where we are hard, cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand.
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The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it.
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When I play discos in Belfast or freshers' week in Oxford, there are 1,800 kids dressed as me. It's odd, it's funny, and it pays really well.
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Life's fulfillment finds constant obstacles in its path; but those are necessary for the sake of its advance. The stream is saved from the sluggishness of its current by the perpetual opposition of the soil through which it must cut its way. The spirit of fight belongs to the genius of life.
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I don't have a favorite role because there's been so many films that I've done that I've really enjoyed.
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Music means different things to different people and sometimes even different things to the same person at different moments of his life.
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I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.
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My first big break came with Lauryn Hill on a track called Everything is Everything, I played piano on that track way back in 1998.
