Benjamin Clementine Quotes
The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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I love work where I can find out more about the world and its history.
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It's unacceptable to just sit on the couch and say I'm not doing anything. You've got to get out and do everything you can.
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I'd never been published when I was young.
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I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
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I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
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I took Latin and Spanish. I can speak a very small amount of Spanish, but Latin has sort of gone away! Unless I was joining the Catholic Church, there would be no need to learn Latin.
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I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.
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Republicans think that the NAACP is the only voice in the black community. It is a voice in the black community. But it's not the only voice.
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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The Japanese have a strong tendency to suppress their own feelings. That's the Japanese character. They kill their own emotions.
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No individual, regardless of where they live or whom they love, should suffer discrimination.
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And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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Family and God - that is what's important. Money, cars, those are things that come and go.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I think of myself as an actor.
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Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
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Losing someone we love, or the fear of losing someone we love one day is a difficult experience and we can all relate to it. None of us are an exception to this reality.
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I know plenty of people who do, who get their holidays paid for and in return have their photographs taken on the beach, but not me.
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For you, the state is an entity with purposes of its own that the people can be required to serve. For us the word is only a label for the arrangements by which we the people delegate to some among us responsibility for things that concern us in common.
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The thing is: I was quite slow when I was younger. I might have been smart - I don't know - but I was slow talking to people. And as you can see, I don't talk very loud.
