Benjamin Clementine Quotes
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
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There are people who think I should be using the position of secretary of state simply to weigh the scales on the side of my own party. I just don't accept that, and it would not be proper.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I've never had to pitch a movie to a studio. I usually just let people read the script, then I cast it. I always think pitching is for baseball.
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In the spring of 1936, I was introduced by friends to Jean Tatlock. In the autumn, I began to court her. We were at least twice close enough to marriage to think of ourselves as engaged.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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I started out doing musicals.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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Horses know how to be loyal but still keep their distance.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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A woman can't be alone. She needs a man. A man and a woman support and strengthen each other. She just can't do it by herself.
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There are no fights in Ireland, people just get so drunk they go, 'GODDAMN, YA SONOFABITCH!' and pass out. And there's no Alcoholics Anonymous there, because if there's a meeting, it's always at the bar,
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Sometimes I think that we are living in a simulation controlled by the reigns of a destructive child who often gets bored or distracted, leaving us trapped inside feedback loops for years at a time.
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The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
