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At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

John Legend

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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
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Singer
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But in my mind I've always been a solo artist- I've just been working with a lot of great people like Kanye and Alicia Keys and Jay-Z.
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If you want the film [La La Land ] to represent all things jazz, it does not. You'll be disappointed by that. But, if you just see it as one guy's point of view, one filmmaker's point of view, and one story among many stories that can be told about jazz, then it's not as much of an issue.
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The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.
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I don't really marinate in anybody's album because I don't really want to sound like anybody else when I put my album out. So I'd rather not even be tempted to listen to a bunch of other stuff with any degree of emersion in it, cause I just don't want to sound like anything else, so I kinda focus on my own music.
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All men should be feminists. If men cared about women's rights, the world would be a better place
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I want to move people, stir something within them that makes them feel. That's what a movie should do and an actor should do, make you feel something. I think that's why people love films so much.
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I'm honestly not a great gift giver. I could give better - my girlfriends have always complained about that.
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If I collaborate with people, ideas...they take interesting turns and twists, and I'm excited for that and that process and excited to see what we come up with.
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I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.
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I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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Sometimes I just think people are haters. And if they're haters, you can listen to what they have to say but you have to take it with a grain of salt.
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Witnessing the extreme poverty in remote parts of Affrica can make you feel sad and powerless until you realize how little it takes to change these people's lives fundamentally in sustainable ways.
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I just want it to be timeless and timely at the same time.
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In terms of the technology I use the most, it's probably a tie between my Blackberry and my MacBook Pro laptop. That's how I communicate with the rest of the world and how I handle all the business I have to handle.
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Anybody under the age of forty knows hip-hop, gospel and R&B pretty well, and it's all a part of what we consider to be 'black music.' There is a natural synergy between the three.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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I'm trying to be me and embrace all the parts of me that have grown up, listened to more music and soaked up more influences.
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Artists in general never stay in the same place, we keep growing. It's still you, you still have that core that you always had, but you work with new people and hear new things.
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