Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes

I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty

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• To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

  

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• Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.

  

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• The stopwatch doesn't lie. The tape measure doesn't lie.

  

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• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

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• I couldn't follow nobody's rules.

  

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• Most of the media... is positioning the merger with Compaq and the recent actions by Walter Hewlett and David Packard as a fight between the past and the future.

  

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• But I have to say I'm incredibly proud of the Panther Racing National Guard Team, and in my IndyCar career there's not many races where I've honestly left the track feeling that we've executed everything perfectly. And I have to say, I thought they did an absolute phenomenal job. The pit stops were just first class.

  

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• In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.

  

  Adam Johnson
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• If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.

  

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• Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.

  

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• I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on.

  

  T Bone Burnett
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• Most virtue is a demand for greater seduction.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
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• There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

  

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• In my previous career as a chief executive of high-tech companies, I experienced firsthand the endless possibilities when people from diverse backgrounds work together. They get to know one another and quickly learn that they share more in common than they originally thought.

  

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• In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.

  

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• The saddest thing that befalls a soul is when it loses faith in God and woman.

  

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• If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.

  

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• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  

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• I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.

  

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• I get uncomfortable in large groups of people and loud music.

  

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• I was always the type of person, and still am the type of person, that I cannot be creative and use substances. So from a very early age I knew that if I wanted to make music, successfully, in any capacity, I was going to have to get sober.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • Music
  • Age
  • Creative