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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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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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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Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a powerful individual. Somehow they have acquired the false notion that tyranny or dictatorship or cruelty are the outcomes of a powerful personality. These characteristics are not power. They are weaknesses disguised as power.
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Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
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I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.
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I grew up at a time in Singapore - the '70s and '80s - where it was still possible to go riding around the island barefoot. And I was one of these kids that was just climbing trees and running around the neighbourhood.
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I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.
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My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
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We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at it because we were Americans.
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When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.
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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.
