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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• Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Good
  • Hand
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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.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Long
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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.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Me
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• Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Fraud

• Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.

  

  Gary Bettman
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  • Focused
  • Classic

• 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.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Job
  • Think
  • Stop

• 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.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • You
  • Matter
  • Horizon

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• 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.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Happiness
  • Child
  • Maturity

• Women and gay men have something in common after all: in that they are trying to deal with this goofy egotistical monster called a man.

  

  Edmund White
  • Men
  • Women
  • Trying

• I'm one of those pesky Brits.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Those
  • Brits

• So being two different people in one day unnerved me to no end.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Doing
  • Nothing
  • Wrong

• 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?

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Life
  • Work
  • Music

• My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • Art
  • Paintings
  • Plague

• Remember, the choices we make today shape the people we become tomorrow.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • People
  • Remember
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• The moors have this weird energy. They trap you.

  

  Kaya Scodelario
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• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
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• We write the song, then it gets played for the artist, and they somehow fall in love with it and go back in and make it their own.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Song
  • Artist
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• I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Business
  • America
  • Opportunity

• As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

  

  Lorin Maazel
  • People
  • Music
  • Trying

• 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.

  

  Gerald Maxwell Rivera
  • Time
  • Annoyed