Andy Grammer (Andrew Charles Grammer) Quotes
I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I don't know if I actually am good at the sight of blood. An accident on the street gets me very, very upset.
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I would love to do some theater.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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The climate has been changing since there was a climate.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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You need a teaching coach who understands the game of basketball, not just some guy coming on the court talking about Xs and Os.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.
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I'd like to help educate kids about the Major Leagues - what to anticipate, what to expect, what they'll need to do to prepare themselves.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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I love girl power.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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There cannot exist in the future an economy which is still mercantile but which isn't capitalist anymore. Before capitalism there were economies which were partially mercantile, but capitalism is the last of this genre.
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I always knew I would sing. I just didn't know if I would be successful or not. But I sang at school, I sang at parties, I sang at church. Everyone always asked me to sing. I'd be playing football with my friends, and my parents would ask me to sing for their guests. I was never very happy about that because I wanted to play football.
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Silence is complicity. I believe that.
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At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?
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The book is called 'A House in the Sky' because during the very, very darkest times, that was how I survived. I had to find a safe place to go in my mind where there was no violence being done to my body and where I could reflect on the life I had lived and the life that I still wanted to live.
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I saw my dad doing it and thought to myself, 'I can do that.' I would be backstage watching him and running around the country with him singing to children. He would sing songs that taught children really good morals: like, 'Teaching Peace' was a song he used to sing to kids a lot.
