Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
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Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are.
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Hizbullah is not a militia.
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I was probably never going to get to do the kind of things dramatically that I really wanted to do, so I returned to theater from time to time, and to write, and produce. It's by no means sour grapes.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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I mean the idea of this is that it's a good thing for the public to hear interviews like this and that there will be an inevitable amount of fewer interviews if people that the press talks to wind up thinking, well, it's not really a CBS correspondent.
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I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.
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The greatest thing about being in a band, and the strength of having companionship and collaboration, is also the thing that makes a band break up because then you begin to feel confined. Like, who am I as an individual, as a writer, as a performer?
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'Drama' was put together quickly; there were a lot of intense, 16-hour days. Despite the pressure, it was a lot of fun, and the end result was an album I'm very proud of.
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There are two things that have been happening over the last few decades in my opinion. First, there have been unbelievable, remarkable, pioneering advances in technology and, second, an equal amount of evolution in creativity. These two shifts are meeting at an intersection.
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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I always think that the party that offers the most hope and ideas for the future is the party that wins.
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I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.
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It's important that when kids are listening to my music they don't think of it as their parent's music.
