Benjamin Clementine Quotes
People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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There have been recorded cases of people learning how to fly a plane after playing a flight simulator, but there's never been a case of someone learning to fight by playing 'Tekken.'
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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Depression is something that doesn't just go away. It's just... there and you deal with it. It's like... malaria or something. Maybe it won't be cured, but you've got to take the medication you're prescribed, and you stay out of situations that are going to trigger it.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I think a lot of people are with the one they're meant to be with. I see it watching my parents because they've been together for so long and are still very much in love. I'm just sort of in awe of that.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more than any other place on Earth.
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When people are nervous, some people move around. Some people scratch their leg.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I'm used to being part of 'Game of Thrones' and going into something where you're a small part of something else. You don't want to hold anything up because they've got such a well-oiled machine going.
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Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
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It is not productive to see things in simple black and white, and talk in either anti-nuclear or pro-nuclear terms.
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I think I got a lot of my 'funny' DNA from my mother, who had a glorious sense of the ridiculous.
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Being around some of the bright lights of the technology world and having them expect great things helps you sit down and do it seriously.
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The myth is that it is possible for one human being to educate another
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I'm quite a good reader of people; I like to meet people, and I can tell if they're lying or not.
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To pull off successful attacks in debates, you have to execute with nuance and subtlety. It has to be artful.
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People say my world is dark. No, there's a lot of lightness in my world. But I know very well that I'm not normal when I'm performing.
