Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes

I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

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• America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • America
  • Artist
  • Talent

• I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Enjoy
  • Look
  • Limit

• In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • War
  • Marine
  • Marine Corps

• I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.

  

  Dan Fogler
  • Up
  • Period
  • Movies

• Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Time
  • Family
  • Taken

• There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.

  

  Verne Troyer
  • Me
  • Nobody
  • Double

• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Me
  • Hell
  • Shine

• Often times I have been asked about the attributes for success, and I have said that you need two attributes for succeeding as an entrepreneur: one, courage, second, luck.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Success
  • Courage
  • Luck

• I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

  

  Wendell Berry
  • Heart
  • Night
  • Man

• By 2025, we can expect the world to be completely digital. Paper books will be a thing of the past. Education will be delivered through analytics-based assessment tools and adaptive learning platforms.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • World
  • Past
  • Education

• Focus on remedies, not faults.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Focus
  • Faults
  • Remedies

• Anything that happens in your life was meant to happen. It is your destiny. I was destined to have the life I have now, and I can't have any regrets.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Life
  • Destiny
  • Regrets

• Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.

  

  Barbara Smith
  • Important
  • Women
  • Experience

• What I wear is constantly evolving. I am really big on comfortable clothes. I love soft, loose-fitting clothing that has some edge or something new/fresh to it.

  

  Hannah Marks
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Comfortable

• I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Different
  • Long
  • Think

• Ergo, because of the money problem, it is probable that our orchestras will soon go down in quality.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Quality

• I'm fascinated by sports, the buzz of winning, and the buzz of losing.

  

  Jack Lowden
  • Sports
  • Winning
  • Losing

• Well, it is curious what lasts and what doesn't. Publishing empires and whatnot would pay anything to figure it out. But they can't figure it out.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Pay
  • Curious
  • Empires

• I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • History
  • Never
  • Dramatic

• ERA means abortion funding, means homosexual privileges, means whatever else.

  

  Phyllis Schlafly

• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• The whole thing with animated movies is that it's very hard to get out of your head because it's very moving through each line systematically.

  

  Bill Hader
  • Moving

• If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Different
  • Nature

• I'm someone that examines culture and tries to break down why things are the way that they are whether its hip-hop music, sex, race, or consumerism. I try to examine it and scrutinize it to the point where I can write a song.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Why
  • Song