Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I'm at a point where there isn't any wasted movement in the throwing motion. Everything is consistent and smooth. When I first got into the league, I held the ball really high. That was the standard in college, and it messed up my timing a little bit - the draw, bringing it back, then the release.
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Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.
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You do not have to dramatize everything. In fact, you usually can't, not without ending up with a half-million-word novel.
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The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice.
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You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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I am not so secretly a comedian. I write a lot of my own material if you've seen videos I've done. I write jokes.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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Key metaphors help determine what and how we perceive and how we think about our perceptions.
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A lot of people thought I wasn't doing anything because I was spending a lot of time socialising and going out, but I've always managed to get work actually done.
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But I don't have a very good track record with royalty. My dress fell off in front of Prince Charles at the Prince's Trust, so I'm just living up to my reputation.
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I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan - I have about 12 coffee mugs at home!
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I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!
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I'm a fan of retracing the facts and absorbing my atmosphere and being influenced by it.
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Americans really don't understand the Japanese nature, but it's not an easy thing to understand.
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'Floating Worlds,' published in 1975 and the lone science fiction novel by acclaimed historical novelist Cecelia Holland, was unique in being completely devoid of the usual pulp influences present in much space opera up to that time.
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I got sober, and I got happy again.
