John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes

My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

John Roger Stephens

• Dad

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• People are fed up with the career politicians who created this mess or failed to prevent it and neither was acceptable, and the only way we could change that was by sending a different type of person to Washington.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Future
  • Child
  • Story

• For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.

  

  Ildar Abdrazakov
  • Time
  • Me
  • First

• It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Up
  • Done
  • Father

• Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Growing

• There's nothing fun about 30 people standing around watching you, like, pretend to pleasure someone. Nothing enjoyable about it, believe me.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Believe
  • Fun

• I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Think
  • Reality
  • Internet

• I had to get some things right in my personal life. And once I got my family on the same page, to understand who I am and what I do for a living, I asked my oldest daughter, 'What do you think about Daddy coming back?' And she said, 'I didn't think you were done. I want you to win the Super Bowl.'

  

  Randy Moss
  • Life
  • Family
  • Daughter

• Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

  

  Gale Norton
  • Help
  • Environment
  • Innovation

• I can't read novels while I'm writing a novel, because somebody's voice creeps in.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Voice
  • Because

• There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Believe
  • History
  • Change

• If I'm elected president, we will repeal every word of Obamacare.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Word
  • Will

• If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.

  

  Takeru Kobayashi
  • Think
  • Competition
  • Taste

• When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

  

  Jack Finney
  • You
  • Heard
  • Both

• The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Truth
  • Know
  • Cool

• No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Believe
  • High
  • Law

• One good thing is I was instilled with really good values. My mom treats everyone the same.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Good
  • Mom
  • Same

• People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.

  

  Taylor Kitsch
  • People
  • Time
  • Know

• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Real
  • Dad

• What I really, really want to do is pre-packaged meals. Fabulous versions that are delicious, healthy, not too expensive and very low in fat. So, that's my big dream, because there's a massive hole in the market for that.

  

  Elizabeth Hurley
  • Dream

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• On every film you suffer, but on some you really suffer.

  

  Martin Scorsese

• My dad liked a lot of Motown, but I didn't listen to it until my teenage years.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Dad