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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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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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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My approach is to be part of a band that makes music, not hit songs.
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I knew at a young age that I wanted to do comedy, and maybe part of that was trying to fit in at school because I had a weird name, and my parents had these accents, and I was definitely a late bloomer.
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True originality has its foundations in the soul, not in the mind, and when there is an effort to create something different it is usually a failure. Beethoven or Schumann or Chopin did not try to be original. They were original.
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The business of the advertiser is to see that we go about our business with some magic spell or tune or slogan throbbing quietly in the background of our minds.
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One of the things I'm always reminded of when I'm back on stage is how much you have to be aware of and in control of. There is no tight shot. There is no 'we're only shoulders-up this time.' No, from the top of your head to your pinky toe, you're telegraphing part of the story the entire time you're up there.
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Soccer is a cruel sport sometimes.
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In your 20s, you're just a sketch of what you think you're trying to be.
