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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When scrutiny is lacking, tyranny, corruption and man's baser qualities have a better chance of entering into the public business of any government.
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I want every child in America to eat a nutritious, delicious, sustainably sourced school lunch for free.
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How ridiculous I was as a Marionette! And how happy I am, now that I have become a real boy!
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Anthropology has been compared to a great region, marked out indeed as within the sphere of influence of science, but unsettled and for the most part unsubdued. Like all such hinterland sciences, it is a happy hunting-ground for adventurers.
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The thing you think is going to be huge ends up not being huge at all, and the most minute thing you do is talked about for the rest of your life, so I try not to have any expectations at all. I think that helps, if you're just focusing on the project at hand.
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I got sober, and I got happy again.
