Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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I have a great team at WME.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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There's book smart, there is street smart, there's relationship smart, there's too many different kinds of smarts to know all of them. Everybody doesn't know every kind of smart. There's money smart, there's movie smart, there's computer smart. There's just too many different kinds of smarts for people to know all the smarts.
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I've got a great support system, starting with my wife and family, to my agent, my instructor, and my mental coach.
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It feels like Gangstarr is the purest group in hip-hop. They was shooting videos on the beach in the winter when the water was ice. Razor-blade music.
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Are you a Democrat because you're a union member? Then why, after eight years of Bill Clinton, does some Chinese guy in Guangdong province have your job?
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I have always argued that newspapers should not have any civic purpose beyond telling readers what is happening... A reporter who doesn't quickly tell readers what they most want to know - the score - won't last long. Better he should teach political science.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
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Military is a great place for a jock. That's the first thing they test you, they test you physically. If you can run, if you can do the pushups, it's not as hard a transition. If you can't do that, you're going to have a problem because they're going to really work it out of you or work it into you.
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A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.
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I go into military communities and do fundraisers and that kind of thing with the band, because I know that the music can help do a lot of things. It can bring communities together, it can raise awareness... and it entertains.
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I had always wanted to be on SNL, it's not always great, but it's this leftover childhood dream.
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It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
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Why is it there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?
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Cities can be the engine of social equity and economic opportunity. They can help us reduce our carbon footprint and protect the global environment. That is why it is so important that we work together to build the capacity of mayors and all those concerned in planning and running sustainable cities.
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Casper Wyo., population 18,000 when I was born, was large enough to hold the surprises of civilization, but small enough that the prairie was close by - for some in our town, right out the front door - stretching on forever, under the great curving sky.
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Privately, I believe in none of them. Neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.
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The budget is not just a collection of numbers, but an expression of our values and aspirations.
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The England I write about doesn't strike me as the real one.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
