John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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There's no single company in the whole world that has a big-scale production base and at the same time has screening and distribution channels. Wanda Group is the first one in the world.
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Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.
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I'm honestly not the kind of person who wants to step up to a podium, test the microphone and be like, 'Hey, I'm homosexual and this is who I am, hear me roar.' That's not who I am.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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I got into retailing because I wanted a real job.
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As leaders, we become whole when we see that our focused, singular commitment to making the numbers and the metrics cannot be effective on its own, but only when it is part of the whole picture - only when we see that it takes more than metrics to make up the whole.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Gandalf is ever-present in my life. I like it.
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I don't have to do anything for anyone else's benefit anymore. I just want to exceed my own expectations.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
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At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.
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There's something grounded about 'Ugly Americans,' so I think it's good that I'm playing a version of myself in these elevated cartoon circumstances.
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You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude.
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There is no poetry where there are no mistakes.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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It is easier taking the beaten path than making our way over bogs and precipices. The great difficulty in philosophy is to come to every question with a mind fresh and unshackled by former theories, though strengthened by exercise and information.
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I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your mistakes. Your imperfections. I want you, and only you.
