Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with my family. I was always the naughty one.
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Had the price of looking been blindness, I would have looked.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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If the IOC would move the Olympic hockey tournament to the summer, that would be great. We'd be thrilled to have our players participate because then it doesn't affect our season.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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The best example of how impossible it will be for Major League Baseball to crack down on steroids is the fact that baseball and the media are still talking about the problem as 'steroids.'
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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Usually, it's the guys who want to get better so they can get more playing time who are always in the gym.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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In the final analysis, terror is also another proof of the fact that the superpower is not really a superpower. It was vulnerable.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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The Bible shows the way to go to heaven, not the way the heavens go.
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When I was a young girl, I was so crazy about animals that I wanted to do something associated with them, and I thought of being a vet. But then again, I figured I had to go to medical school, and science wasn't a good subject for me, so I dropped the idea pretty soon and thought maybe I could be a vet's assistant.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I was not afraid of the press or the militants. It was uncomfortable, but I was not afraid. With respect to the press, I knew I knew more than they knew about city matters. With respect to the militants, I understood it. I mean, everybody believed in those days that they were being screwed, you know, that somebody was getting ahead of them.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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The expansion and sophistication of transnational crime represents one of the most dangerous threats we confront in the next millennium.
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I always wanted to be a comedic actor - that's what I wanted from the job - to do comedy and to create my own comedy. But I still love doing stand-up and will probably be doing it forever. I'd love to be an old guy who can't really walk, can't really stand-up, and I have to sit on the stool and tell jokes.
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I feel like I've got this anti-marriage thing, but it's less that and more I'm overthinking it to get it right.
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I could never really figure out why people would live in a kibbutz. I'm such a city girl.
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If you go from a structure where you have the support and that partner and that construction of a family and that's broken apart, I think that's probably a lot harder than always being a single mom and having the father being a support in another area.
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On Bush 'Free Trade' policies, the Republican Party has signed off on economic treason.
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To say that an author is a reader or a reader an author, to see a book as a human being or a human being a book, to describe the world as text or a text as the world, are ways of naming the readers craft.
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I got into a lot of trouble. Maybe that's why my parents didn't really like me and I didn't blend in with my family. I was always the naughty one.
