John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
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Don't go into any store that features shopping bags that can stand on their own accord in the middle of a table. This sort of shopping bag denotes prices that will start chipping into your children's college education fund. Avoid it.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
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When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.
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There's no regrets for me.
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The very idea of marriage is basic to recognition as equals in our society; any status short of that is inferior, unjust, and unconstitutional.
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All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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I can be very self-destructive, but quietly.
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In a sense, there's a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of the body, modesty of bearing, a modulated tone of voice, and a well-ordered manner of speech. He should be without anxiety as to his food and drink, and should eat in silence.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.
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We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.
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I have accumulated so many experiences, so much, that I want to be able to realize so many things. This is why I have basically given up most of my positions.
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I don't usually drink caffeine so that when I need it, it actually does something.
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When a little more than a teenager, I was a piano-bar pianist in the land where I was born and raised, Tuscany.
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A lot of shows and movies that have tried to represent teenagers or the chaos that is coming at that age, they shy away from it, romanticize it, or they kind of fantasize what it's like to be a teenager.
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I was a wedding singer as a teenager.
