John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I'm excited that I get to do what I love, and I'm benefiting through projects that speak to me.
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The names are bigger, the show is worldwide, but I get a royal pass into life in the broadcasting business.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I'm interested in playing, not working.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I don't know how to say no, and that's a weakness.
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I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.
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One of the exciting things about reporting is going to places you've never been to before.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
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There was nothing about 'The Killing' that patronized its audience, and it was quite slow and detailed, all of the things which, for a long time, people had been nervous of making.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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I thought if my son was now eighteen years old and he was tempted to join the fight and take the burden of protecting his family - because it's always tempting especially for young men - what would I do as a mother to stop him?
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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My quilting is dookie. All needlepoint-related things I should do better on, being honest.
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I don't even date; I'm terrible with women.
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We're all spending way too much of our time and energy trying to fight the stuff we can't change.
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As a breeze ruffles the surface of a lake and distorts the images reflected therein, so also the chitta vrtti (fluctuations of mind) disturb the peace of the mind. The still waters of a lake reflect the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.
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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.
