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.

John Legend

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When you're young, you don't have a lot of control over even basic things in your life - where you live, what you eat, where you go during the day, how you get there. You don't have a lot of control, and that can feel sort of unstable in its own way because you don't get a say in those basic things.

Jenny Han

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I demo all of my songs on Garage Band, where I pretty much play everything - not very well, but I manage to hammer out a drum beat and a bass idea.

Jenny Lewis

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Sometimes, to move into the future, you must go back the past.

Andy Dunn

FuturePastYouBackGoSometimes

We have this interesting problem with black holes. What is a black hole? It is a region of space where you have mass that's confined to zero volume, which means that the density is infinitely large, which means we have no way of describing, really, what a black hole is!

Andrea M. Ghez

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It would have been so awesome to be born in the Thirties and be in your prime in the Fifties. Except for the whole being black thing, obviously!

Andra Day

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No one doubts the enormity of the social challenges we face around the world but one critical element of our response must be the generation of new thinking and ideas. Yet creating the conditions that make this possible is not simple.

Simon Mainwaring

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People are saying I don't need science, I have everything, but everything is based on science.

Rolf-Dieter Heuer

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I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

Rupert Friend

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I was a musical theatre kid, which meant you could always find me singing or dancing in the halls with at least four other people.

Josie Loren

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Working gives you this new perspective. You don't take everything too seriously, and you realise that if you don't do too well on a history test, it's not the end of the world.

Claire Danes

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The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this.

Bono

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You could make any song sound creepy if you wanted. It's all about the inflection.

Willie Nelson

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