Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
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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.'
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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.
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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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.
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The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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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.
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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.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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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.
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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.
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But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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I don't think that the Pulitzer should be given the way it is. I think the competition should be anonymous. I think completely different people would win it if the names were taken off because a lot of it is done on relationships and names.
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Good food is healthy food. Food is supposed to sustain you so you can live better, not so you can eat more. Some people eat to live, and some people live to eat.
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I don't like inherited wealth.
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My son was a goalkeeper in soccer, and he luckily never had much head trauma. He never had any concussions or anything. I really wanted him to play football, but now I'm thankful he didn't.
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It's not about superheroes. This is the method of universal storytelling that all people have... To me, they're the same as the Greek myths or the Roman myths or religious figures of every religion. These are common characters that we use to express stories about being a better person or what you would do when faced with various things.
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I just want to give the people 100% of myself as an artist.
