Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty (Macklemore) Quotes
The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
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One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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What I love the most about modeling is that it opens you a lot of different doors of opportunities and takes you to many different places, which then put you in touch with various people and cultures.
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I don't do negative things.
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I can paint in jail.
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The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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I want people to recognize me for the work I do now as a model, and not something I did three years ago.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
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God is best known in not knowing him.
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Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it.
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The audience may not have felt it was right, and the author may have felt a little upset, but every part I've played I've twisted around in my mind until I've made it into something of my own. Looking back over it, I didn't deliberately sit down and plan like that, but it does read like it.
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I grew up doing a lot of traveling. My mom left home when she was 15 and traveled to 48 different countries and speaks six different languages. So I grew up with my eyes open. She raised me so that if my heart says something is wrong, I have to go help. What's right is right and what's wrong is wrong.
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The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.
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I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.
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I was with my dad 20 years ago as he was dying. I was there at the moment of his death, and I kept wondering the whole while what it must feel like from his point of view to still be there thinking, hearing all that was going on as people came and went, and life continued all around him.
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Writers' rooms are terrifying. You take someone whose never done this before, and this is their life's dream that is about to happen or not about to happen - that is an amazing amount of pressure to have.
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The amazing thing about being a dad is to be able to look at your child and realize that the universe is so much bigger than you.
