John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
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Like in every peace process, and especially in Colombia, there all kinds of problems that will come through. Not only is the process by itself very complicated but it has lots of underground complications.
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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It is useful to the historian, among others, to be able to see the commonest forms of different phenomena, whether phonetic, morphological or other, and how language lives, carries on and changes over time.
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I certainly feel sad about the alienation from my son.
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I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.
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Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
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I did not have anything to do with these murders. Ever.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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Just to know that someone who's 15 years old is listening to my music and the work that I've done - it's definitely a blessing.
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Death is the beginning of something.
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Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.
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In the past I have declined to comment on my own work: because, it seems to me, a poem is what it is; because a poem is itself a definition, and to try to redefine it is to be apt to falsify it; and because the author is the person least able to consider his work objectively.
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It is too often not realized that culture itself is an adaptive tool, one of whose main functions is to make the physiological emergencies come less and less often.
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My belief is that if you start a film all the way up at level 10, you've got nowhere to go.
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I like the tournaments at home. The crowd is always behind you.
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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.
