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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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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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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To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.
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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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The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
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I've learned more from makeup artists in my nine years of modeling than from my mother. She always told me not to wear any makeup. I try to keep my skin and hair clean and give them a rest when I'm not working.
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It takes a long time to build democracy, to build freedom.
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually extricate her babe from the fire into which it has fallen - but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present.
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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.
