Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
-
The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.
-
For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
-
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
-
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
-
You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
-
Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
-
I think when you compete every week, when you play under pressure daily, you find your rituals to be 100 percent focused on what you're doing.
-
I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
-
I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
-
The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
-
Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
-
All the reasons that have made software so successful are beginning to happen with hardware. So much can be done so quickly, prototyped so rapidly, and the costs are so low.
-
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
-
I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
-
I open the doors for everybody all the time.
-
Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
-
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
-
My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
-
American liberty is a religion. It is a thing of the spirit.
-
We want to take care of our employees, because they take care of our family.
-
My thing in this day and age, with reality television and so much other stuff that is going on, is people want to feel the reality. They want to relate.
-
I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.