John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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Follow me around. I don't care. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They'd be very bored.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.
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The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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And also I didn't want my future to be just sitting in a room and be imprisoned in my four walls and just cooking and giving birth to children. I didn't want to see my life in that way.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.
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People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that I want to write about.
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If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.
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We can say, 'OK, I'm going to be in the car for an hour; what can I do to improve my quality of life during that hour?'
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No man bosses me around, and no man ever will.
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I feel like I've been fighting in music and creating new ways and new opportunities to make things work even when people thought it wouldn't.
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When I arrived, I felt the spotlight shining brightly on me, and I knew the sharks were ready to strike if I did not pan out and prove myself to be the showman and the player the college ranks had labeled me to be.
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I was an English major in college who concentrated in African-American literature and culture. So I read quite a few slave narratives and stories of escape, and I grew up in Ohio, which was a common stop on the Underground Railroad.
