Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
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Cuba needs a dose of perestroika.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on our way.
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What we women need to do, instead of worrying about what we don't have, is just love what we do have.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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As feminism becomes more integrated into mainstream publications and conversation, I feel weary of an obsession of celebrity culture masquerading as activism or as conversation or action. It's clickbait.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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You don't get money unless you have a lot of talent, which I don't have, or you work hard, which is what I do. We don't have any golden touch here.
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As a writer, a blank page will humble the hell out of you. It always does, and it always will.
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If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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I came to the industry with wide eyes and an open heart thinking I was going to make a few films that really meant something that I could pour myself into.
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I'm usually working on eight or 10 things at once.
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My parents were able to pay our expenses, but not for education. We were encouraged to work hard in school and get scholarships.
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My mind is vacant on names, but I know him as well as anything. When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.
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Animation is the only thing I ever wanted to do in my whole life. I have no desire for live-action or anything else.
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I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.
