John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes

I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

John Roger Stephens

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• While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.

  

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• I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.

  

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

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• If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afraid to question what they see.

  

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• I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

  

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• I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

  

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• In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

  

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• I was authorized to do everything that I did.

  

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• Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.

  

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• Everybody talks. Anthony Pettis talked before the fight. Donald Cerrone talked before the fight. See what happened?

  

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• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

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• Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.

  

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• My first album was completed in three months.

  

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• From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

  

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• The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.

  

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• The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.

  

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• Stuxnet, a computer worm reportedly developed by the United States and Israel that destroyed Iranian nuclear centrifuges in attacks in 2009 and 2010, is often cited as the most dramatic use of a cyber weapon.

  

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• Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.

  

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• I think it's important to understand that North Carolina has been ground zero for conservative backlash.

  

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• I was a busy kid in high school - a little bit of an overachiever, I guess. Prom king was kind of silly, but the rest of the stuff was important to me.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Important
  • School
  • High