Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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I think it's the director's prerogative, not the studio's, to go back and reinvent a movie.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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I am a writer of the textbooks of scientology.
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Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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One of the things I think is unique and signature about Blizzard is that whenever they do their games, and with 'Warcraft' in particular, they take the things they love and put a twist on it. They showed that heroes can come from the most unexpected places, and as a player, you can play as a hero, on all sides.
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The Black Panther Party stood up and said that we don't care what anybody says. We don't think fighting fire with fire is best; we think you fight fire with water best.
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I always think my face is quite nondescript - it sort of fits in to any period. It's not really distinct enough for you to remember me from something.
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There is no more light in a genius than in any other honest man-but he has a particular kind of lens to concentrate this light into a burning point.
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A military career offers the stability many South Korean women crave.
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I find that when I put my spiritual life first, the rest of my life is easy. When I put my career first, that's when I have problems.
