"Some people are saying that my music is not for Burberry, it's not for fashion. I know where they're trying to go but if you're saying my music is only for deprived and sad people, then you're not helping me and you're not helping yourself. It's meant to be for everyone."

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Benjamin Clementine

#Fashion Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I do know there are still industries that are not on an equal playing field with women. My thing is, don't let that keep you from continuing to do what you know that you have to do. Don't look at it as an excuse, look at it as an opportunity.”
“In my own life, I decided to leave meat off my plate in medical school, but was a bit slow to realise that dairy products and eggs are not health foods either.”
“In social life, in the family government, in the Church, and in the State this is an acknowledged and invariable law. The debtor would be incapable of appreciating the clemency which cancelled the debt, so long as he denied either the existence or the justice of the claim. Unconscious of the obligation, he would be insensible to the grace that remitted it.”
“It's not so simple to just walk into the desert and cleanse your soul like some new age, snap your fingers, it's all done.”
“Truly, one gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves.”
“It’s so dangerous to idealize anything, or anyone, or any place, because it gives that thing or person or place a kind of permission to not have to change, and not have to evolve. It encourages us to bury our heads in the sand, or in values that are really morally neutral but that we pretend are moral goods: tradition, community and family for example.”
“As for my dignity... the hell with my dignity. I will get along alright in this world. I don't have to be dignified, professional.”
“In the middlegame, the king is merely an extra, but in the endgame, he is one of the star actors.”

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