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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I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.
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But, there was a time when we all had a great thing going but one person just became very uncomfortable with it and he had to try to change it around to suit him more and then it suited no one else but him.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.
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I'm not a revolutionary, and I'm not a warrior.
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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.
