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 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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I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.
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For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life.
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I made my daughter read the whole. That's how you make atheists.
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The United States appears to be a debtor nation in perpetuity.
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I have an outline but never use a teleprompter. That kills the connection.
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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.
