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.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		Nothing is over and done with. Nothing. Not even your malice. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Jack Henry Abbott 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Edmund Phelps 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last? 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Vernon Howard 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Gabriel Iglesias 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Victor Vasarely 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets! 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				R. Kelly 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
		
	
	
	
	
		The occasion of this sadness is expressed in a word, but must be considered in many more, as being the principal concernment both of the Text and Time. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				John Pearson 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Prayer is a fine, delicate instrument. To use it right is a great art, a holy art. There is perhaps no greater art than the art of prayer. Yet the least gifted, the uneducated and the poor can cultivate the holy art of prayer. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Ole Hallesby 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Faran Tahir 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Losing his wealth, his home, the life he had built, killed my father. He didn't die right away; it took four decades of exile to finish him off. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Andre Aciman 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Abraham Lincoln 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		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. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
					 
				
				Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty