Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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Even when I was making the first 'Paranormal Activity,' I didn't tell anyone I was making it, not my friends or neighbors or co-workers. I just kind of found that there was nothing to gain by announcing to the world that you're doing something.
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work comes to him.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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I think being idle is quite hard for me to do.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.
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I don't get hung up a lot on angst.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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My music is not just about entertainment. It is about enlightenment also.
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I remember a time when I was younger, when if you had to see an actor, you had to go to the theatre and watch a film.
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I'm the Jerry Lewis of crime fiction.
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Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.
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I'm not Mr. Mom, but there's just certain things I won't say anymore.
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Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place - that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.
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When I go running, I see Mexicans working hard.
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I used to run away from school to my village. But later, I went to the U.S. for studies and lost touch.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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I dabbled with faith, and I explored religion quite thoroughly.
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My father worked in the Post Office. A lot of double shifts. All his friends were in the same situation - truck drivers, taxi cab drivers, grocery clerks. Blue collar guys punching the clock and working long, hard hours. The thought that sustained them was the one at the center of the American dream.
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'Moxie' is a name that was created by an American for the first national soft drink and then went on to mean chutzpah, and that's nice.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
