John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes

I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

John Roger Stephens

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• When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • Business
  • Change
  • Look

• I hardly teach. It's more like a gathering of minds looking at one subject and learning from each other. I enjoy the process.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • Learning
  • Enjoy
  • Process

• In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Community
  • Place
  • Individual

• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Time
  • Important
  • Live

• Once I was in the city, I really enjoyed it. Just to experience things. There was so much new stuff.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • Experience
  • City
  • New

• I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to 'ER' were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Think
  • Environment
  • Healthy

• We absolutely look at larger trends and reactions on Twitter here at the White House.

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • House
  • Look
  • White

• Growing up in Dumfries, I got no sun - I spent all my time in my room making records. When I came to America, it made me recognise the benefits of sunlight. Oh, and I also got a good haircut. I used to have a terrible haircut.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I think basically I'm lazy, but I have a housewife's mentality when I go about my job.

  

  Indira Gandhi
  • Job
  • Think
  • Lazy

• Everyone in the entertainment business gets crappy contracts when we start out, and into the middle of our careers. It's the nature of the business.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Business
  • Nature
  • Start

• Dark matter is interesting. Basically, the universe is heavier than it should be. There's whole swathes of stuff we can't account for.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Interesting
  • Universe
  • Dark

• My mother is going to get earrings of my head. Some will be dipped in silver, some will be dipped in gold, and I will hand them out to everyone I know.

  

  D. J. Cotrona
  • Mother
  • Know
  • Hand

• I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Look
  • Relationships
  • Seeing

• Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • People
  • Mean
  • Growth

• I think that people don't know how to do anything anymore. My father was a janitor. He could take a car apart and put it back together. He could build a house in the back yard. Today, if you ask people what they know, they say, 'I know how to hire someone.'

  

  Walter Mosley
  • People
  • Together
  • Father

• Our mission on Apollo 14 was to be the first to do science on the moon, so we had to be careful about getting everything in during the allotted time.

  

  Edgar Mitchell
  • Time
  • Science
  • Moon

• What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Think
  • You
  • Seriously

• I don't take vacations.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Take
  • Vacations

• Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.

  

  Elena Roger
  • Night

• I got scouted for modeling, and it was really scary - I was walking my dog wearing heels for the first time ever because I had a party to go to the day after, and I wanted to practice, and this black car kind of started following me, so I, being dramatic, picked up the dog and started to run.

  

  Anya Taylor-Joy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • World
  • Work
  • Stop

• We can understand that people, seeing this anti-charter slander by certain media, end up thinking ‘Oh God, am I right to support the charter? Am I a good person?’ Well, yes, you are a good person, ladies and gentlemen, you’re part of the majority of people who want a charter.

  

  Bernard Drainville
  • People
  • Support
  • Charter

• I know how it feels to be a singer who wants to get discovered.

  

  John Roger Stephens