Gerald Maxwell Rivera (Maxwell) Quotes
Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
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My real last name is Galifianakisburg.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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Each of the bracelets I wear is from a long trip I've taken. One is from Nicaragua. One is from Nepal. One is from Guatemala. One is from Laos. They don't come off. I walk into a lot of very high-level boardrooms now, and I present to distinguished conferences, but these bracelets remind me of the places I've been and the people I've met.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers.
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A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I wake up every morning and I wish I were dead, and so does Jim.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
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People love gospel music. It's calming. It's soothing. It gets right to the point of whatever you're dealing with.
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The pains of disconcerted or frustrated habits, and the inherent pleasure there is in following them, are motives which nature has put into our wills without generally caring to inform us why; and she sometimes decrees, indeed, that her reasons shall not be ours.
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My dad signed me up for some acting classes at a place in Honolulu, and there I got to audition for some L.A.-based talent agents. I got a few 'callbacks' and so my mom and I decided to fly to California and check it out!
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The majority of the people of Puerto Rico support commonwealth.
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They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together.
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Most of the people you see me working for me are actually with me. And I'm proud to say that I've known them for 20 years almost. I've written songs with, produced songs with them a lot of times. I don't deviate form my comfort zone. I feel like when God brings people to you, it's good to keep 'em around.
