Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I love my headscarf. I wear my head wrap every day with my hoop earrings.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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You have to actually be weighted to something to do the moonwalk, you know.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.
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Cows are gentle, interesting animals.
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Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.
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I kept on hearing the voice of God saying if you are going to be the minister that your mom mentioned... then you have to act. My pulpit is acting.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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When you're a big money earner and your husband isn't, it makes you question how feminine you are. I felt I was less feminine than if I was a supporting wife, or a second fiddle, or 'Mrs. Higgins.'
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave it to be published like that. It seems to me that prose mustn't be prosaic.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I think 'Cool Hand Luke' was probably the first movie in which I was aware of the writing as its own separate thing. It was that speech when the guy reads Paul Newman the riot act. The speech about going in the box.
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So many young black women love science, technology, engineering, and maths. But that's not the widely held image of the kind of person who likes those things.
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
