Benjamin Clementine Quotes
Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We are slaves to whatever we don't understand.
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The forthputting of willpower is a means of strengthening willpower. The will becomes strong by exercise. To stick to a thing till you are master is a test of intellectual discipline and power.
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I am not a prisoner of conscious, but people try to make me one sometimes. It is both a gift and a curse. It's a high honour but can create limitations - I have to be fluid.
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The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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The Backstreet Boys were so ten years ago. Whatever.
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The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.
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In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I'm obsessed with Marcus Mumford. I've got to know him recently; he's amazing.
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I almost bought a DeLorean the other day just because. If I see something that I think is cool and I like it, I'll go for it.
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The heart of Univision – and what we do – is here in Miami.
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These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.
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People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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I have always loved fashion since I was a kid and customized my school uniforms.
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A good fight scene is really a good love scene.
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You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
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If everything happens for a reason, what's the reason?
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I was not considered beautiful at all. Really. And this is what all models say. But I'm still not considered that beautiful in my country. I don't know the beauty ideal where I come from – but it's not me.
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My awards are lovely. I love to show them off.
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When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.
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Arizona - I've only spent a few days there, but it's inspired me the most. It's so peaceful.
