Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
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I always feel like rejection is my petrol. That's what keeps me going.
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I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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I screen tested for 'The Tudors' in N.Y. That was my first experience of N.Y., being flown here to screen test with Jonathan Rhys Meyers. So I have very, very fond memories of New York – New York helped give me my first big break.
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I did a play called 'On Golden Pond' in a dinner theater in Maine and then went to New York for a talent competition having put together a three-man juggling routine and some one-liners and I got myself an agent from that.
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It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
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I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.
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There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can't believe it! Why? Because we don't want to be wrong - so we'll be right and make it hell!
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If even dying is to be made a social function, then, grant me the favor of sneaking out on tiptoe without disturbing the party.
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I have some security that could protect me against provocations but of course there are more terrible actions that could not be stopped by any security.
Garry Kasparov -
I don't know how to be a rapper. I just know how to be me.
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I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
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I've got a rubber face. It has always served me very well and really helps, especially as I get older, because I still have all my road map intact, and I can use it at will.
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I never hated my father. I would have named my child Usher regardless. I never hated myself because I carried his name, because I made it mean what I wanted it to mean.
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Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.
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After you pay your E-ZPass bill, there is no reason for the government to keep records of your travel.
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I'm not a technophobe, but I'm pretty old fashioned.
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The same national authority that destroyed slavery must see that this other pretension is not permitted to survive.
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The money matters. And secret money is corrupting, secret money is dangerous, secret money leads to scandal.
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If we continue to make moral judgements (and whatever we say shall in fact continue) then we must believe that the conscience of man is not a product of nature.
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'The Driver' wasn't commercially successful at the time, but when I was a teenager, I had no knowledge of that.
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The reason why I meditate and pray in general is just to remind myself that it is not about me.
