Gerald Maxwell Rivera (Maxwell) Quotes
I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.
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It's different for every song. But for 'Say Something,' I think it was Chad who had an idea on guitar, and I had an idea on piano for different songs, and we just married them together. We bounce things off each other constantly and kind of massage all these ideas into a three and a half minute pop song.
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All men begin their learning with Homer.
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It's true; once you are a father, there's no turning back. Your heart strings as well as your purse strings are never again the same.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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Me and my brothers started a musical group early on, and we were playing in places where we really weren't supposed to be.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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I don't feel comfortable making empty music.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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If I'm paying money to come to see you, you shouldn't look like everybody else in the crowd.
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When it comes to helping make the country strong, we in Congress have an important role to play.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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If you're trying to turn me into something else? It's easy to see, I'm not down with that.
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I don't think anybody is - no one could compare to Ronald Reagan, because he was the right man at the right time.
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We got sick of interviews and performances - for a long time, it came back to doing 'Take on Me.' It became a circus number instead of music.
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Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues.
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I'm really maturing into soul music. It's not my attempt or karaoke try. I feel like I really embody the music now that I am 36.
