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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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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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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Getting elected Governor of New Mexico, I really did enjoy that job. I thought I made a really big difference, and I think the same running for president of the United States - that I could make a really big, positive difference.
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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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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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It's kind of bittersweet. The human spirit is not measured by the size of the act, but by the size of the heart.
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I've found that it's actually more of a disability to be tall than short. I have no problem fitting into plane toilets etc, and the adaptations made for wheelchair users - such as the lowering of bank machines - work for me as well.
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I appreciate the idea that anybody would think of me as a star. But I'm really not career oriented in the sense that I want to be a star. It's not in me. It's not what I do. In fact, I'm amazed that I've even gotten this far.
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Sampling is kind of prehistoric, given the technology and the textures you can create.
