Gerald Maxwell Rivera (Maxwell) Quotes
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.
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What is important is for me to do my best work on camera. The camera is inches away from you and sees every micromovement of every muscle of your eye. And if you're not relaxed, the camera sees it.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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My dad always said that hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard enough.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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The sheer diversity of literature in the Bible is one of the secrets of its continuing popularity through the centuries. There is something for all moods and many different cultures. Its message is not buried in religious jargon only accessible to either believers or scholars, but reflects the issues that people struggle with in daily life.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
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So I've done my fair share of theater. I have also been very fortunate in that I've been able to come to New York two or three times a year just to see as many shows as possible. I think the live theater culture here is incredible.
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In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.
