Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
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It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
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I get motivated by the fact people are following me, that they want a photo or say 'vamos' or 'Canelo.'
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My plans are not to open a restaurant, but what I would like to do is open a kitchen somewhere in D.C. proper and have a chef's table where people can come and taste my food without having to have a catered event.
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IBM isn't investing billions of dollars every year into research and development - and winning more patents than our top 10 competitors combined for more than a decade - as an academic exercise. But research is now being driven much more by what people need rather than just by what is possible.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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People are clamoring to hear good ideas as opposed to the lesser of two evils... Either the Democrats are going to win or the Republicans are going to win, but the losers are all of us out here as citizens that really do want meaningful change, and none of it's happening. There's no dialogue regarding meaningful change.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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Technology itself is neither good nor bad. People are good or bad.
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I'm a big fan of people like Rachel Bilson and Kate Bosworth. I think they're so chic and have this cool edgy-rocker feel. For about a month I tried to do that, but what I realized is that I can't be anything other than what I am.
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People will ask, 'Are you famous?' And I always answer, 'My mother thinks so.'
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Everyone knows almost everything about me. I make it very clear that I'm cool with people knowing all my personal life through my songs.
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What people ask for has nothing to do with the value of a property. You might see a listing for $300,000 and think you should make a $250,000 bid. But hyper-focus on what the house is worth. You should know what the house is worth by looking at comparable properties. Base your bid on that.
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To write a love song that might be able to make it on the radio, that is something that is terrifying to me. But I can definitely write a song about that chair over there. That I can do, but to sit and write a pop song out of the clear blue sky, that is very difficult and I admire the people that can do it.
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Active management leads to lots of poor investor behavior. It sends people chasing after whoever has the hot hand at the moment.
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Stop threatening to kill people on Twitter because you don't like what they are saying!
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Quite honestly, if we do manage to destroy the planet with our devil-may-care attitude to natural resources, I'd suggest we leave, as a dossier in our defence, the collected letters to agony aunts and uncles down the generations. It would certainly prove that we weren't all bad!
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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The rules of engagement when I was in Afghanistan were very flexible. When you're at war, you're at war.
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I love doing things that people don't expect.
