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The best way to fight poverty is to empower people through access to quality education

John Legend

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John Legend
Age: 45
Born: 1978
Born: December 28
Actor
Film Actor
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Record Producer
Singer
Singer-Songwriter
Television Actor
Springfield
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John Roger Stephens
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I want you to live the best life you can. You can be world-changers. .. Pursue this life of love with focus and passion and ambition and courage. Give it your all. And that will be your path to true success.
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I think it's hard to really write a song that will educate someone because songs are meant to be ... you don't want to be too didactic in a song because it doesn't make for good music. And I think the role of songs can be to inspire people but there needs to education and prose to back that up.
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The fun part about collaborating is that you naturally just bounce off each other's energy and learn off each other.
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Experience is a great teacher.
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I only want to be associated with music that is high quality. That's my main criteria.
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Every artist wants some sort of feedback, because you make this music and you hope people love it and you want to hear if they love it and what they love about it, what their favorite song is, what they think the next single should be. I like to hear those things.
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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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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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No matter how big or successful and famous you become, if you do that, that's the most fulfilling thing, is making music that you love and that you're proud of.
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For me, no matter how much money you want to make off of singing, no matter what kind of fame you want to make, achieve, the most important thing to me is making music that you're proud of, making music that comes from you, comes from an authentic place in you.
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We should care about what is going on in the world.
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Soul is about authenticity. Soul is about finding the things in your life that are real and pure.
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I was in an a cappella group in school, so it particularly helped me keep my piano chops up.
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I've written good love songs when I have been in love and I've written good love songs when I haven't.
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I don't get to listen to music for fun very often a lot of what I'm hearing is for work and isn't released yet.
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Some people, you know, should just go to college and do what they do and have a great job and not worry about trying to be famous as a singer. It's not for everyone.
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I don't like going to football games. I like watching them on television. When you go to a game, it's hard to focus. There's so much going on, and it's cold. I'd rather sit and watch it and get replays and commentary.
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I guess a lot of times pressure is put on something after it becomes big.
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I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.
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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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