John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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I think our chances are not looking great today but the only way to fail for me is just not to try.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Free love sounds great.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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When you spend a lot of money on one player, you want him to prove himself, but the way football works, one day you can be good, the next you can be bad, and the next after that, you can be very bad. I have come to Manchester City to work very hard and to help my friends make Manchester City great.
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The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
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There came a point in time when Michael was under a great deal of pressure to alter the film in a way that was just disturbing to him. I had not seen the movie, yet. He phoned me in July of '92 to look at his version.
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There are a lot of great artists with great voices who aren't singing what they should be singing.
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The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.
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There is so much great talent in the underground, and electronic music is finally getting the props that it's deserved for so long. I feel like now that everyone is discovering it and it's so fresh sounding to so many people. It doesn't get any more rock n' roll than playing EDC or the Staples Center. It's really madness.
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Utah is one of the nation's leaders in rebounding from the Great Recession.
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The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
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I feel creatively vibrant. I have some great friends; I feel like I'm capable of giving a lot to the world. And ultimately, that's what I really care about, is just giving.
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Surprisingly, I am great at kiteboarding, but I'm not great at surfing.
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I was extremely lucky that I had two great wives. It sounds a bit funny to say that, but it's absolutely true.
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What's great about 'The Daily Show' is I can use satire and push the envelope. I couldn't do that anywhere else. Even if I was a journalist.
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I would love Kate Middleton to be in 'Glee.' Wouldn't that be fantastic? That would be great.
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My boyfriend is not a swimmer!
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A government that can take all and can seize all, a government that doesn't trust its citizens, a government that says it's their way or the highway... that's the scary part.
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A Tom Ford three-piece makes you feel so confident, it's bananas.
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The romance stuff is easy. A sex scene... that's hard, because you don't know what to do. Those scenes are awkward.
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I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
