Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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Every song is like a kid. How can you have that many kids and have a favorite? Which one do I like to hang most with?
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I've said some things about other religions that I regret now. I think they were incorrect.
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It's about these people who are inextricably together for whatever reasons, and they happen to be in the spy world. It's about relationships, and the bottom line is, that's why you care.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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I find the presence of the sea quite inspiring, and sometimes I do just get out and walk around and take in the sea breeze to try and clear my mind.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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I think there's a time to be private and a time to be public, and I think that companies like Facebook and Groupon are basically transformational companies. You don't come across them very often, and I'm pretty sure that they can continue to grow for a long time even being public.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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I buy five of the same shirts. I literally have six blue shirts. Now I have six green shirts.
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The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.
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My father insisted that I learnt the Koran and encouraged me to understand the basic traditions and beliefs of Islam but without imposing any particular views. He was an overwhelming personality but open-minded and liberal.
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The song 'Take This Job and Shove It' spent 18 weeks on the country charts in 1977. 1970s country music fans had a clearer understanding of the ennui of wage-slavery than modern elites.
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I really love a lot of Japanese music, like Ryuichi Sakamoto and this guy I got really into, Tatsuro Yamashita. When I was a little younger, I thought synthesizers meant Kraftwerk, cold, robotic, weird, Autobahn. But these guys are having a lot of fun on these things. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very somber. They could go either way.
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Karma, when properly understood, is just the mechanics through which consciousness manifests.
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I dedicate all my time to music. And I'm glad that it's paying off in some ways.
