Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.
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Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
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Through this experience we have been warned - learn everything, don't forget anything!
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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.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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First and foremost when you're doing comedy, you gotta be relevant and applicable to the times that you're living in. When you try and just do comedy about who is dating who and lifestyle jokes, it gets tiring after a while. It's hard to be funny in that realm.
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I fell in love with social work, and that was my undoing as a poet.
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The really pop country stuff can sound a little bland because they put in strings and horns and all of that.
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I always invest my own money in the companies that I create. I don't believe in the whole thing of just using other people's money. I don't think that's right. I'm not going to ask other people to invest in something if I'm not prepared to do so myself.
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In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
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I don't hold any candle for drama versus comedy.
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I want to be someone who is respected and not just in terms of my music. I want to be respected in terms of the way that I treat people... Music is my creative outlet in terms of expressing what is important to me; what has importance, what has a value. And I wanna be respected for that.
