John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
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Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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I believe in peace. I believe in mercy.
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What you had at the time was a dictatorship with the team owners.
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I'm trying to make perfect moments. And those generate meaning. If you go deep enough in how to make a moment, very quickly you come to how narrative works - to what we are as a species, how we've come up with telling stories in scenes and images.
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I don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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You can go out in a good movie and look bad as well.
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I prefer the Telugu film industry, as women are respected more than they are in the Tamil film industry. In Tamil cinema, they care only about their hero, who is God.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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I like acting for now. But after seeing Apollo 13, what I really want to do is to be an astronaut. I'm dying to go to a space camp next summer!
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There seems to be this thing in football where everything has to be... now!
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I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
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Big businesses aren't the only ones in the economic ecosystem. Nobody should fall behind because of an unfair structure.
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There are so many cute vintage dresses made out of synthetics from the '60s and '70s - but they're so itchy and hot. It's not worth it!
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We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
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My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it.
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My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total. I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction of the Constitution.
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Whatever is calculated to weaken or impair the strength of Union, whether originating at the North or the South, whether arising from the incendiary violence of abolitionists, or from the coalition of nullifiers, will never meet with my unqualified approval.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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People ask me: "Why do you write about food, and eating, and drinking? Why don't you write about the struggle for power and security, and about love, the way the others do?" . . . The easiest answer is to say that, like most other humans, I am hungry.
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Like, I kind of developed my musical style in a vacuum. Even though I listen to a lot of stuff, the way I wrote was in my bedroom, really privately. It's still the way I write, actually.
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If you want to be remembered as great, if you want to be a legend, you have to go out there every single day and do stuff.
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Any time you are put in the same category as Jane Fonda, a real legend, it feels surreal, perhaps even undeserved.
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John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
