Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
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I think we all feel geeky at times, don't we? Isn't that all a part of the wonderful tapestry of life?
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Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I love to beatbox and have been doing it before I even knew what it was.
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I had done some TV movies that were great experiences but, no, I wasn't looking to do a series.
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My son's a West Point cadet.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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Purgatory fire will be more intolerable than all the torments that can be felt or conceived in this life.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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Do you want to tear your life apart and get rid of everything you've known as a lifestyle? Like seeing your family? Being with your friends? A fishing trip? A hunting trip? A night's sleep?
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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I remember when I was in third grade, I was in a classroom, and the teacher said, 'What do you want to do when you get older?' We were going around the room. I said, 'I want to be a professional basketball player.' She's like, 'That's not realistic.' I thought to myself, 'OK, watch.'
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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I believe that everything has a shelf life.
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When I hear from people who are struggling to put food on the table, I understand because I've been there.
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Money is nothing really worth squabbling about. This is what puts people six feet under. You know, I don't need it.
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I think there are a lot of people out there that are speculating in the stock market. They have all kinds of tech stocks or social media stocks. If you want to gamble in the stock market, I would much rather gamble on a mining stock than a social media stock.
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In the presence of your own loving attention, you create the inner conditions that are necessary to step into the next greatest evolution of yourself.
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I go up to people and ask if I can use them in my photos. Occasionally it is the person in question, as happened with James Hewitt. How embarrassing. He just laughed and said, 'You can't afford me.'
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It's weird because music is this thing that you love doing, and it comes completely from a place of creativity, and then that transfers into having to manage a business and make decisions and figure out what is the best route to go in terms of getting your product to as many people as possible.
