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 could put you in a condo, all the way up in Toronto
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I hoped that it would be possible to slide slowly from my public life back to the life of teaching and writing that I had always wanted. But things didn't work out that way.
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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.
