John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I am enjoying my face changing, as well as realizing that at the same time, as you get older, the machine isn't as well-oiled as it was.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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It's true about the eyes being the window to the soul. Your face can be etched with worry, and twisted by ageing, but the eyes tell the true story of who you are.
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It's really not my thing to go after what comedians are doing. Because I always feel like we're jesters at the end of the day.
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Strange bonds of trust and self-deception tend to grow between journalists and their subjects.
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What is needed in the theater, in fact for all our art forms, is a vibrant critical tradition.
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I didn't work for Jimmy Carter all those years to go to cocktail parties. I was there as a political adviser, a short-order cook, to work on topical matters.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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I have this threadbare caftan from the '60s that I got at a vintage store years ago - it's basically a muumuu. My friends are astonished that I wear it, but I love it. It's this light fabric that just moves with me.
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Women are the only 'oppressed' group that is able to buy most of the $10 billion worth of cosmetics each year; the only oppressed group that spends more on high fashion, brand-name clothing than its oppressors; the only oppressed group that watches more TV.
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My special thing as a kid was to play dead because I thought I was really good at it. When I was 7 or 8, I even did it in the bathroom with a hair dryer in the bathtub. I realized that I was good at it because each time my mom would scream.
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TV is obviously so different from film: because it's a never-ending process, it keeps going; you keep receiving new pages.
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The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
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I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.
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During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.
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There is definitely a comeback of the idea of dressing well every day. Nowadays, suits can be worn for many occasions - to work or to school, to a dinner party or red carpet event.
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I nitpick details.
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John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
