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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Maybe I'll be 48 and die in the gutter in Paris.
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It's really important to me that my niece and nephews can come and see my show, as can my grandad and nan. I love spending time with my family, and music has always bonded us.
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When two people first meet, they can only have a very ordinary kind of friendship. But when you begin to understand each other, when you get close to them, you discover that you're suddenly eager to know him or her even better.
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As well as might we say that a ship is built, loaded and manned for the sake of any particular pilot, instead of acknowledging that the pilot is made for the sake of the ship, her lading, and her crew, who are always the owners in the political vessel; as to say that kingdoms were instituted for kings, not kings for kingdoms.
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Words that do not match deeds are unimportant.
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The day has the color and the sound of winter. Thoughts turn to chowder...chowder breathes reassurance. It steams consolation.