Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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What other grown-up gets told how to do their job so often as a writer?
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I am not an autobiographical writer.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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I respect Lady Gaga very much.
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I'm a very private person, so obviously I don't enjoy talking about more personal matters.
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Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
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I feel very, very blessed.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolutely lovely, but very English.
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Desire is the very essence of man.
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I always knew I wanted to be a writer. I just wasn't sure what I wanted to do as a money-making job.
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I draw a very clear distinction between populism and democracy.
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What I observed about my fellow actors was that most gave up very easily.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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I'm a very competitive person.
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Everything I make starts very personally.
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I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.
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As a press secretary and on 'The Five,' I've learned that I have a choice in how I answer a question. There's combative or productive - I get to take my pick.
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Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?
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I got some news for you. One, there is no Jesus. Two, there is no God. Three, mind your own business and everything works out.
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Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
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I'm a very conceptual writer.
