J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Every great work of art has two faces, one toward its own time and one toward the future, toward eternity.
-
I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
-
I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
-
I always loved all kinds of music. I would watch musicals a lot as a kid, on TV, watch the Fred Astaire movies. I'd watch 'The Wizard of Oz.' I was a big Jerry Lewis fan, and they'd have these big bands and someone singing - some siren, or some guy singing some gorgeous song. I was always enamored of that style of music.
-
I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
-
Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
-
Every actor has their own process. For me, I really need to stay in the pocket. So, if I'm on set and I'm in character, I'm not thinking like a producer. If I'm on set and I'm not in character, wardrobe and make-up, and I'm just coming on set for the moments that I'm not shooting, then I'm able to be the producer.
-
The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
-
Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
-
Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
-
The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
-
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
-
I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
-
I think that the future of currency is digital, and Bitcoin has a good shot at being the currency of the future.
-
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
-
I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
-
In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
-
I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.
-
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
-
Sondheim writes the music and lyrics, and because he's so smart and goes so deep with his feelings, there's a lot to explore, get involved with and learn about.
-
Doing good isn't that hard. It's just doing a lot of good that is very hard. If your aims are modest, you can accomplish an awful lot. When your aims become elevated beyond a reasonable level, you not only don't accomplish much, you can cause a great deal of damage.
-
Poetry from the bottom up is an act of selection: you kind of feel your way through the crowds of poems. The good ones came forward a long time ago, and the bad ones fell away.
-
I like to make super music instead of working with superstars.
