Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
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If we focus on our health, including our inner health, our self-esteem, and how we look at ourselves and our confidence level, we'll tend to be healthier people anyway, we'll tend to make better choices for our lives, for our bodies, we'll always be trying to learn more, and get better as time goes on.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I'm a choreographer and I love watching 'The Bachelorette.'
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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If I'm going to change, my life and experiences should change me for the wiser and more profound.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.
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The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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It's always an honour doing anything for your country.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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In an open society, no idea can be above scrutiny, just as no people should be beneath dignity.
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If something is as smart as you, do you treat it differently if it isn't a human?
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Don't punish small businesses with over-regulation.
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I felt the calling to adopt. You just know in the deepest part of your being that you are meant to find this little soul and guide them through life.
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Having lost both my parents as a teenager, family is so important to me, and I cherish my time with my children and grandchildren. I have four children, and they all became lawyers - as I was myself before I got into music.
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I'm actually doing what I like doing, which is mixing opera music and classical music with soul and folk. And I was writing and talking about what I've actually experienced, and I don't think that's very common.
