Benjamin Clementine Quotes

My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

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• I have to keep reminding myself: If you give your life to God, he doesn't promise you happiness and that everything will go well. But he does promise you peace. You can have peace and joy, even in bad circumstances.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • God
  • Bad

• We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • People
  • High
  • Night

• Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Up
  • Eye
  • Shadow

• Television can be a little tricky in terms of finding roles that feel fully flushed out, which is why I love being in the theater so much, because the roles tend to be really on the page.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Love
  • Why
  • Television

• This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Business
  • Hell
  • Picked

• I struggled with being a broke college graduate, and while all my friends were getting career jobs, I was working horrible part-time jobs. That's why now, even when I get tired, I think, 'This is what I asked for.'

  

  J. Cole
  • Time
  • Why
  • Friends

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.

  

  Jaan Tallinn
  • See
  • Safety
  • Research

• Even before I competed in the Olympics, I always wanted to write a book.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Book
  • Always
  • Write

• There are so many elements that make a good film. You need a great director who's driving it.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Good
  • Great
  • Driving

• I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Business
  • Man
  • Support

• Human experience depends on everything that can influence states of the human brain, ranging from changes in our genome to changes in the global economy.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Experience
  • Brain
  • Influence

• The joy of YouTube is that you can create content about anything you feel passionate about, however silly the subject matter.

  

  Zoe Sugg
  • You
  • Joy
  • Silly

• The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Love
  • Space
  • Ability

• I know I'm not a conventional beauty. You can read a lot of painful things on the Internet, which criticise you aesthetically - but as far as I'm concerned, that's not what an actress is.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Know
  • Beauty
  • Internet

• Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • Hope
  • Conviction
  • Optimism

• The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will stimulate economic growth.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Growth
  • Promise

• I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Love
  • Perfect
  • For Her

• I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

  

  Edward Abbey

• I want to see more people push what it means to be a web show... because it's very difficult to make a living making those types of shows.

  

  Freddie Wong
  • People

• It's not like I am a junkie that wants to throw himself from very tall buildings, but some people are, and I love them kind of people.

  

  Jason Statham
  • People

• When I was 3, my parents strapped on a pair of Playskool plastic roller skates to my feet, and that's where the story begins.

  

  J. R. Celski
  • Parents
  • Story
  • Feet

• My parents always said that I would be a lawyer or pilot or doctor - and I always just thought that's what I would do.

  

  Benjamin Clementine
  • Parents
  • Lawyer