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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Nothing is 'another day at the office.'
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I always liked show biz and got to make a few training films at Boeing. Soon after, I got the idea of a science show geared toward kids, around ages 8 through 12.
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
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I have always been a pretty big fan of ghost stories.
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What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.
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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.
