Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I always see my music for its rewards rather than its awards. But I always thought if there was one award I'd want to win, it would be the Mercury.
Quotes to Explore
-
With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
-
To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.
-
Experience by itself is not science.
-
Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
-
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
-
I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
-
I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
-
It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
-
I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
-
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
-
PCR made it easier to see that certain people are infected with HIV.
-
To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
-
We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
-
This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.
-
I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
-
I've been very lucky.
-
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that foundation.
-
It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
My family traveled a lot. For a while we even lived in a trailer and traveled from campground to campground. If we got to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, it was the highlight of our whole year! But I don't miss having to share a bathroom with seven people or having powdered milk with my cereal. It was so nasty.
-
Lucian Freud's career affirms that the only thing an artist can do is remain true to whatever vision, (lack of) talent, or ideas that happened to pick them in order to be made known to the world.
-
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
-
The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
-
I always see my music for its rewards rather than its awards. But I always thought if there was one award I'd want to win, it would be the Mercury.
