Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
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Soon I knew the craft of experimental physics was beyond me - it was the sublime quality of patience - patience in accumulating data, patience with recalcitrant equipment - which I sadly lacked.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.
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I just throw it out and see what happens. If it sounds and feels right, then I continue.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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When this space walk will be completed, then the arm will be fully operational and ready for the next activity that will be pretty much the testing, the first flight testing of the space station arm.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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In my experience, great reviews almost always ensure no sales.
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I have to admit that I can't take a whole fig and eat it on its own as I would a peach or mango. It's just too much.
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Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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If we got an educational program going, we could tell people, "Instead of butter, use avocado." That's something we eat, it has the good fat, and it has a good texture, and it tastes better. Just imagine if you substituted that. Or if we switched to olive oil, the extra virgin olive oil, we could still have our taquitos, but put a little oil on them and put them in the oven and bake them.
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I'm from a middle class family, but my father squandered all the money, so I didn't really run around with rich people.
