Gerald Maxwell Rivera (Maxwell) Quotes
A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I certainly keep my eye on Washington all the time because often life is stranger than fiction.
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We'll always be fascinated by people who live above the law.
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The history of our country is not the history of any other country in the world which is either practicing advanced democracy or struggling to lay the foundation for democracy.
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Obviously it's more fun having my teammates there and having all that camaraderie, but individual workouts are not a loss.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I'm very realistic. I know my boundaries - I know what I'm good at and what I'm not good at.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.
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Alanis Morissette - I love how she's not afraid to say what she wants to say. Love it or hate it, she's going to say it. And her vocals are crazy; they're amazing, and I also love how her music is really organic.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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Kabir Khan is a director who goes out of his way to make his actors comfortable. He's very chilled out. He makes the environment on set very casual and friendly.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
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I have a feeling of complete balance. The sea, the house, the loneliness, the light. Everything is clearer. Much more precise. I have the feeling that I am living on a limit, and I'm crossing that limit sometimes.
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I love a ghost story. I think they affect me more than other people that are much more skeptical than I am. I think that it's good that I do buy into them to some degree.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of women try to tuck their butt in or kind of slouch because they're trying to hide. Obviously, you can't suck it in, but it's important to really show off the belly.
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A part of me was like, 'Man, do I even like doing this anymore?' That whole thing of 'I'm in my 30s, and I sing and write songs while people are fighting wars in Iraq.' You know? So everything had to have more meaning, and it couldn't just be about making money. So, I took a minute.
