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My grandfather is a blues musician.

~Desiigner

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Actually, if you listen to the vocals on my grandfather's records, you will hear we sound similar. We both sound kind of dry. We have a dry voice, and we both love harmony - he was a man of harmony, I'm a man of harmony. I think it just runs in our blood.

~Desiigner

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At school, I'd be the dude singing to the girls, always up in the auditorium, in the lunch room singing Christmas carols, in the halls between class. I was always singing, and same thing with my grandfather. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree; you know how that goes.

~Desiigner

Topics: Always Apple Auditorium Between Christmas Class Dude Fall Far Girl Goes Grandfather Halls How Know Lunch Room Same Same Thing School Singing Thing Too Tree Up You

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I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

~Dichen Lachman

Topics: Always Aunts Cousins Full Grandfather House Lived Parents People Room Shared Uncles Until

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My maternal grandfather owned a grocery store that also sold kosher meat. He did well.

~Dick Van Dyke

Topics: Also Did Grandfather Grocery Grocery Store He Maternal Meat Owned Sold Store Well

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I was told by my grandfather who was a minister that we all were put here on earth to be of service to one another, and it is quite gratifying to know that if I am able to be of help to one that is not able to help themselves then I am fulfilling my obligation as a human being.

~Dionne Warwick

Topics: Able Am Another Being Earth Fulfilling Grandfather Gratifying Help Here Human Human Being Know Minister Obligation Put Quite Service Themselves Then Were Who I Am

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When my grandfather died, I was on tour, and I didn't go to the funeral. I never got to say goodbye, and this is one of the problems of being in a rock band is that you're away, and your loved ones die, and you can't even see them.

~Dolores O'Riordan

Topics: Away Band Being Die Died Even Funeral Go Goodbye Got Grandfather Loved Loved Ones Never One Of The Problems Problems Rock Rock Band Say See Them Tour You Your

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I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Favorite Grandfather Great-Grandfather Here House Kid Live Moved Place Spent Summers World

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When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Chicken Cooked Days Dear Dinners Eat Farm Grandfather Grandmother Grandparents Had Hen Hours Kate Lived Might Noon Setting Summers Three Twelve

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When I was a child, I loved old people. My New Hampshire grandfather was my model human being.

~Donald Hall

Topics: Being Child Grandfather Hampshire Human Human Being Loved Model New New Hampshire Old Old People People

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