Benjamin Clementine Quotes
Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
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I always wanted to go to the Chavez school but I could never afford it when I was growing up so a lot of my learning came from magic books and watching other magicians. I was also very lucky that I had a couple of really good magic teachers.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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I might not be the greatest actor, but I walk into every project willing to work hard.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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My health is fine.
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I'm not trying to prove anything for the right or the left. Which gives me freedom to make jokes about either side, too.
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I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.
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Because I am afraid of commitment. This movie certainly has some bearing and is some reflection of my real feeling about relationships, because I do have commitment issues. My friends tell me I have intimacy problems, but they don't know me, so who cares what they think?
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The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.
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For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.
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I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.
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People may think I'm crazy, but one of the ways I like to wind down my Friday is to get some of our household chores done, whether it's cleaning or doing a big food shop, so the house is all nice for the weekend.
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It's beneficial to play against your type; to be chameleon-like.
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Sometimes I feel like I'm two people. I'm proud of who I am as a person, but I do want to be at a healthy weight.
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ALEC is one great organization, I think, for growing future political leaders.
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I like horror movies, they're fun. It was the most fun I've had on a movie set.
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Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.
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The next Google is more likely going to come from outside the U.S. Whether it's in Europe, I am not sure. A lot of things have to change.
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Music is the reason I started talking to people. When I started singing in bars and trains, I began to learn the behaviour of people. Music was the bait that helped me get something from them and give myself to them.
