Javier Hernandez Quotes
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The main objective of our cinema is to entertain. If you can pass on a message at the same time, that is fantastic, but if the audience does not feel they are going to be entertained by the film, they are not going to watch it. There are many examples of very responsible and great films that are being made, but nobody goes to watch them.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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I'm too self-serious for a comedy.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Having a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a genius, and having less than a million-dollar net worth doesn't make you a fool.
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Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.
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The game is never over. No matter what the scoreboard reads or what the referee says, it doesn't end when you come off the court.
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.
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I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything.
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When you're buying paintings, it feels grown up.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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I'm such a carnivorous researcher as an actor - I chew it up like it's meat, and I really don't know how to do that without the people that are producing or creating or writing that which they want me to chew up.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I played soccer when I was a kid. I started when I was 8 and played for 8 more years. I was pretty good. I used to train with Atletico Nacional, which is one of the most important teams in Colombia. I used to train every day.
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If you gave me an hour in the day between '09 and '14, I could have told you exactly where I was and what I was doing.
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In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?
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We used to dial; now we speed dial. We used to read; now we speed read. We used to walk; now we speed walk. And of course, we used to date, and now we speed date. And even things that are by their very nature slow - we try and speed them up, too.
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Is it not our duty to find the symphonic formula which fits our time, one which progress, daring and modern victory demand? The century of airplanes has a right to its own music.
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The most important thing is to have opportunities and feel confidence in yourself.
