Benjamin Clementine Quotes
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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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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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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It is good to be in front of the lens to appreciate more being behind the lens.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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Me and my dad are kind of distant since my mom and him separated.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.
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Starting out, they told me: 'You're a good-looking guy. We'll put you in this role, and you can be a conduit for the audience into this side of the story.' But I've grown up, and that's not what I want anymore. My concept of the job I do has evolved. And it is a job, nothing more.
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The great fights with your strongest rivals are always the biggest motivation. When you win easily it's not the same taste.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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If it was just me and Elvis one on one, which only happened once or twice in the times that I did see him, it was a really comfortable. He was a cool guy. Easy laugh, nice guy.
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There are poets who believe that you shouldn't engage at all in any cause. And there's something to be said for that. Because you don't want to - I think most political poetry is very bad. And it's very bad because you know too much to start with. You have a sense that you're right, and you're trying to tell other people what's right. And I think that's always kind of fundamentalism, and I don't like it.
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Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction.
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I'm very unphysical and graceless so basically if you save 10 people to be with you in a resistance movement, you would never save me. I'd be the last one.
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It's really important to stand up for yourself and not always agree with what people say if indeed you don't feel that that's true.
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I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
