John Roger Stephens (John Legend) Quotes
In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.
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Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
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My older kids are fantastic people. It can't be the result of my influence on them.
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We're here for a little, little bit of time, and I just wanna make the most out of it.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.
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I think Hillary Clinton is a good and effective secretary of state.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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As anyone who has covered the company for any length of time knows, Yahoo's record on major decision-making has been akin to a hippie commune - a lot of wrangling internally in a culture where everyone seems to have a voice and a reticence to push the button to launch.
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So many people around me would say they cared for the wrong reasons. A lot of people were pulling from me, taking from me and not giving.
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I wouldn't say I'm personally trying to transition from comedy into drama. I don't look at things like, 'Oh, I need to do a drama now.' I get a lot of material sent to me, and if I feel like something has the creative integrity and the right director and the right whoever involved, the right actors and is a great story, then I do it.
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You really have to love every single bit of what you do. The moment that you do something that makes you feel queasy to your stomach, the company dies.
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It don't take me no three days to record no album.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
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In America we have big issues with education - in impoverished communities especially. I work with Teach For All, and so we're encouraging more people to get into teaching.
