Gerald Maxwell Rivera (Maxwell) Quotes
I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I'm not the most prompt, on-time person.
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I think I was probably an early teenager when I discovered Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and a bunch of people that are on a long list of artists. They were important to me, especially as an early adolescent.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I'm one of those pesky Brits.
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So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.
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I'm going to try to do music for the rest of my life, but that's just trying. Maybe it's not going to work out. Who knows?
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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Together, we can create a world in which peace is real; in which every human being can thrive; in which all share the promise of our century. I believe we can succeed.
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Certainly in the arts, in all genres, I think that men should step away. I think men should stop writing books. I think men should stop making movies or television. Say, for 50 to 100 years.
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I would much rather feel comfortable and feel beautiful, than to feel uncomfortable, but look fantastic.
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I consider myself to be sort of a progressive Afrofuturist that is deeply committed to social justice.
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You look at, like, a 'People' magazine, which used to be a really good, you know, nice magazine you could go to for real stories. It wasn't like a 'Star' or an 'US Weekly' and they have somebody with plastic surgery on the cover, Heidi Montag. And it's obviously what consumers want, because why else would they be doing it?
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There's kind of no rhyme or reason to what is appealing to any given actor. It just is, or it isn't. It's kind of like dating. You either connect to someone or you don't. You can't really say why.
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I love my last-minute lifestyle because I just sort of don't have plans, and things kind of happen. Plans make me annoyed a little bit, personally. I'm not the most prompt, on-time person.
