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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There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.
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I think it's great that they are getting funding, but it's just too easy. They don't have to work for it. We did it because we had pride, because we loved it.
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Wine gives a man nothing... it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.
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Hollywood has a longer pre-production period and they juggle shooting schedules more carefully for each cast. In Korea, we shoot day and night without much break.
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No matter how one approaches the figures, one is forced to the rather startling conclusion that the use of firearms in crime was very much less when there were no controls of any sort and when anyone, convicted criminal or lunatic, could buy any type of firearm without restriction. Half a century of strict controls on pistols has ended, perversely, with a far greater use of this weapon in crime than ever before.
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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.
