Benjamin Clementine Quotes
If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.
Quotes to Explore
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.
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I like sitting close to windows.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
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I want to play interesting women.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I love make-up and the process of transforming my face for a night out, but I definitely don't believe in wearing it every day. I think it's really important to be comfortable with the way you look without it.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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It was a dark period of my life when William Hung was the most famous Asian man.
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I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
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In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can.
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To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.
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I don't really go out that much, if I'm honest. I'm quite a recluse. If I had my way, I'd probably be at home most of the time with a book and a cup of tea or glass of wine.
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If you have parents who can't show you love, a kid can grow up to look arrogant. Because they need to create a fake self. Or they think they're more powerful than they really are.
