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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There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God.
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I'm constantly learning with each new job, especially about people, which is important for playing characters.
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I never really thought I was going to be a singer, honestly. I never listened to singers; I always listened to rap music.
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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.
