Brandon Adams Quotes

Since the beginning of my recording career in 1975, I have had a little difficulty because the pop stations think I'm a jazzer who doesn't have a feeling for pop, so it's hard to get my records played. Similarly, black urban radio doesn't understand that with my R&B roots, I am more than a jazz singer. So I get pigeonholed.

Shorter daylight hours can affect sleep, productivity and state of mind. Light therapy, also known as phototherapy, may help. It uses light boxes emitting full-spectrum light to simulate sunlight.

The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.

Golf was my first glimpse of comedy. I was a caddy when I was a kid. I was on the golf course rather than being in lessons, but I can play better now than I could then.

In 1950, the biggest amp you could get was no bigger than a tabletop radio.

Some people in LA are addicted. They have to be here. My personal life is stronger than my professional life, in terms of priorities.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

I'm not letting him write anything. I didn't do anything. I just took his pen.

Joan Rivers was my hero.

I'm Muhammad Ali's daughter, but my father and I are very different in that area. I don't necessarily try to put on a show. That's what my father's thing was, and he was great at it. Everything I say is because I feel it, and it comes out of my mouth. It's not scripted.

We only do harm to ourselves when we harbor resentment and vitriol toward another. I do believe that everything is forgivable; some things are inexcusable but forgivable.

Prejudices are the chains forged by ignorance to keep men apart.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.

I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself.

Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead to democracy.

I started doing improv my sophomore year.

Dad was very into electronics, robotics and computers, so I was interested in what he was doing.

One of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower, and we had family in Jamestown as well... I was raised where service was a part of the fabric of life. It wasn't one-upmanship. No one bragged about their medals, but you could see the look in the eyes, the tip of the hat. You served your country first, then you went to work and had a family.

My legacy isn't about what I did playing football, but how I use the opportunities that came from playing football.