Andy Kim (Andrew Youakim) Quotes
With Kevin Drew, as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.
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The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.
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I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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So many songs are just a wink to the audience, but people take them seriously. 'My Humps?' C'mon!
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I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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I've always considered myself a fairly romantic person. I believe in love and falling in love at a young age.
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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I'm the sort of person who needs a big mountain in front of me to climb.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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On the subject of literary genres, I've always felt that my response to poetry is inadequate. I'd love to be the kind of person that drifts off into the garden with a slim volume of Elizabethan verse or a sheaf of haikus, but my passion is story.
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We've all had those moments where we take a person for granted.
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A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.
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I do believe we should push each other to write better songs and make better music. We do ourselves a disservice if we sit back and float along the river instead of trying to paddle and guide ourselves to a more creative place.
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I remember listening to Sugar Free and Jay Z and I never really understood some of the stuff they used to say until years later. Then you hear it again like, Damn that's crazy. I just got what he's talking about.
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We feel like there's a lot of up-and-coming guys that can play well at times, but we just haven't really put a tournament together, ... I don't really know why we haven't done that well. But we're working hard. I guess the general consensus would be that we just need, I guess, a little bit more experience under our belts and need a breakthrough win. Hopefully this can be mine.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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You can only possess beauty through understanding it.
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With Kevin Drew, as I said, in his own way just told me "You gotta find that person that talks to you in your songs." I think we succeeded. I feel relief, to be quite honest with you.
