J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
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First of all, I'm so glad that the city of Houston has a football team again. They have such great fans. I'm really happy for the people of Houston because they deserve a football team.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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'Yield' was completed in 1997 and released in 1998. In the spring of 1997, I had made a decision to stop taking medications that I had been taking daily since 1988.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.
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Our target is not negotiations, it is the end of the apartheid system. There can be no compromise about that.
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
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A woman's whole life is a history of the affections.
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But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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The world gets grimy and the love object is in stark relief from its surroundings. This is love, a pretty thing on an ugly street and why wouldn't you pick it up if it appeared in a taxi cab.
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None of my own experiences ever finds its way into my work. However, the stages of my life - motherhood, middle age, etc. - often influence my subject matter.
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'Sleepless' was the first thing that came out and really gained a lot of traction online.
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I've had some ambivalent feelings about being an actor. I don't know that I've ever been totally and completely comfortable with it.
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As long as I keep it real, I learn something from everyone. And when you view yourself as a student and not as somebody who's bigger, there is still learning that can be done every day, and that keeps you open-minded and more ready to learn about life and love.
