Benjamin Clementine Quotes

I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

Benjamin Clementine

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• We don't really watch basketball in Australia.

  

  Iggy Azalea
  • Basketball
  • Watch
  • Australia

• But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

  

  Ian Hamilton Finlay
  • Artist
  • Poet
  • Embarrassing

• The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Cat
  • Down
  • Clever

• 'Trapped in the Closet' is pretty much forever. I've got a leash on this thing now. I'm going to walk it.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Forever
  • Now

• I have a very broad demographic, from the 8-year-old who knows every word to 'Ice Ice Baby' and the college kid who grew up on 'Ninja Rap' to the soccer mom and grandparent.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Up
  • College
  • Mom

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• Patients are becoming aware that they're being taken for a ride by big pharma companies. They charge high prices and have never cared for India's healthcare. There are 23 million cases of cancer every year and India has a fair share of that.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • High
  • Taken
  • Cancer

• When we say Church of All Nations, it's a vision given to me, that the church will touch all the world.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • World
  • Church
  • Vision

• My parents weren't keen on the giving up of school at the beginning to go into singing and dancing, but once they saw I was serious about it, they gave support. I was quite stubborn about my decision, and in the end, they realised it was for the best.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Up
  • School
  • Parents

• Make your life about you, and once you build up yourself first, then you can focus on boys.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Life
  • Up
  • Focus

• I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Science
  • Math
  • Astronomy

• I'm just being normal. A normal woman. Well, I don't know what a normal woman is, but I'm a woman and I'm Yoko and I've never changed that.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Know
  • Woman
  • Never

• Too many people focus on writing what they think they should write, what should be in a song, what radio would want.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Writing
  • Song

• You know what I would love? I would love to be one of those actresses who can come out with a film or come out with a new commercial without the world knowing about it.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • World
  • Love
  • Know

• I find the public passion for justice quite boring and artificial.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Passion
  • Justice
  • Find

• I hate when people use this term, but Matt Weiner is a genius.

  

  Randee Heller
  • People
  • Hate
  • Genius

• Change is never easy.

  

  Sally Field
  • Change
  • Never
  • Easy

• It can be a miserable profession, acting, because you always want what you can't have.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Want
  • Always
  • Acting

• Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Done

• I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Things
  • Sing
  • Hats

• When I'm writing a score, I'm constantly looking for ways to improve on it, even when I think it's working well. I don't give up on things, and am always trying to make incremental improvements, which means I never finish writing a score early!

  

  Geoff Zanelli
  • Thinking
  • Writing
  • Mean

• The grave I go to will not be my own. But if I could step outside myself and contemplate the person that I am, I should know at last what envy is.

  

  Anna Akhmatova
  • Envy

• When I was young, I had a very clear point of view on things in life, on moral questions. There was a black and white viewpoint on my world. As I've gotten older, I see the grey areas appear.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Life
  • World
  • Black

• I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.

  

  Benjamin Clementine