Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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I think the show does better with newsmakers and politicians than it does with actors.
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You get kind of bored being in catalogues all the time.
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Every time - well, not every time, but in celebration of a great review or a great accolade, I take the team of Daniel to Katz's Deli for lunch. We take the trip on the subway, we were like 40 or 50 people, and we go in the back room and have a pastrami sandwich.
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This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.
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I think that a woman wears so many hats, we have so many aspects to us that we're not just one thing. We represent so much within us and that kind of comes across for me as a designer through mixing prints and colors.
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I think that any time you're able to get a guy like Carmelo Anthony to be on your team, you're going to be a step up.
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I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
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I'd like to think, if I was ever in a fight, I'd win, although I'd probably run in the opposite direction.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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My grandmother was always upbeat, a naturally happy person. I think I got that from her.
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I'm not afraid of turning 80 and I have lots of things to do. I don't have time for dying.
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Music is the best means we have of digesting time.
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I got a job as soon as I could - 11 or 12. I started babysitting and then I got a part-time job at a pharmacy in England. I just remember loving the feeling of going out and buying my own clothes! I'd go bargain-hunting and get secondhand vintage stuff.
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I can't think of a more pathetic situation for an actor than to do a film and not connect to it. And I pray to God that I never face that situation.
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I think I'm a nervous laugher. Like, when you're in a situation that you don't know what's going on, you go to laughter more than anything.
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I sometimes feel it is to my disadvantage that I have not conducted the Cleveland Orchestra or the Boston or Chicago symphonies, but then I have had to sacrifice something in order to have enough time with my orchestras.
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I hate wasting people's time.
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I look at my clarinet sometimes and I think, I wonder what's going to come out of there tonight? You never know.
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When people ask me for playlists, I always put in 'Moonlight Sonata' because it is my favorite song. I play it all the time.
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Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I think that civil rights issues take a lot of time to develop.
