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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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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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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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Romania is still very much underutilizing its natural and human potential.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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Often, I work out of my work. One work takes me to the next thing.
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I won't give up swimming, even if it kills me. I love the rhythm of it.
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You are never so alone as when you are ill on stage. The most nightmarish feeling in the world is suddenly to feel like throwing up in front of four thousand people.
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Muslim women can save the world from ISIS.
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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.
