Andy Grammer (Andrew Charles Grammer) Quotes
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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One cannot be too careful in the selection of adjectives for descriptions. Words or compounds which describe precisely, and which convey exactly the right suggestions to the mind of the reader, are essential.
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You can have religion with spirituality. You can also have religion without spirituality.
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I am a very selfish person.
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If I can put it together, I've got an opportunity to win.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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Albania, Macedonia and Greece have managed to create a good partnership in the south of the Continent and are making progress in blocking the spread of the conflict. But any spillover could destroy this European-oriented partnership and create problems for the European Union countries themselves.
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I'm not on the radio all day long. I'm not on TV.
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Customer expectations? Nonsense. No customer ever asked for the electric light, the pneumatic tire, the VCR, or the CD. All customer expectations are only what you and your competitor have led him to expect. He knows nothing else.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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How will the approach of the Singularity spread across the human world view?
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You don't have to live in a garage to write great poetry.
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Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.
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Connecting with the kids is a great joy for me. I love meeting them backstage or at a signing event. I am overwhelmed when I meet kids who struggle with terminal illnesses.
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CBS fought very hard on this because it believed and believes that there's a principle at stake here. The principle is that Dan Rather doesn't work for the police, and that people that speak to Dan Rather understand that he's a journalist and not a police agent.
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