Andrew Mayer Cohen (Mayer Hawthorne) Quotes
My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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When we go to the store, we bring home more than food - we bring home traces of broader environmental problems. But we can use our shopping carts and dinner plates to help solve some of those problems.
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Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.
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The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'
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It is ingrained in all living creatures, first of all, to preserve their own safety, to guard against what is harmful, to strive for what is advantageous.
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Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.
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We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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I like to make my name of songs strange.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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A lot of my world-view is formed by the places I've been.
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Even when I was studying mathematics, physics, and computer science, it always seemed that the problem of consciousness was about the most interesting problem out there for science to come to grips with.
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I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are snots. They're just mean people. I'm not a terribly skilled stylist, nor do I want to be. I want a lot of people to read one of my stories and go, 'That was pretty cool.'
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When I was with Houston at the end of my career, Bob Gibson walked up to me one day when I was running in the outfield. He asked me why I didn't quit and said what a shame it was that I was ruining a great career and just trying to hang on. Years later, I saw Gibson trying to do the same thing.
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My mom once told me that she wants to be born as my girlfriend in the next birth because she sees me how I am, I am extremely expressive, and she loves me for that.
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My singing really seemed to connect with people, and it ended up as my main career, which I love.
