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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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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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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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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Yoga means union, in all its significances and dimensions.
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I find the business world hard.
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It's called a private life for a reason - it's mine, and it's special and sacred.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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The mind is like an umbrella - it functions best when open.
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The opportunity to re-imagine a favorite cult-classic from my high school years is an honor. Toxie is an underground icon. My favorite kind.
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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.
