Benjamin Clementine Quotes
The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.
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One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.
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Truly, thoughts are things, and their scope of operation is the world, itself.
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The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.
