J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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The college years are when you sow all your wild oats and become a vampire. By 40, you've lived it up. At least, you hope.
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The solution to women's issues can only be achieved in a free and democratic society in which human energy is liberated, the energy of both women and men together. Our civilization is called human civilization and is not attributed only to men or women.
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
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Making my class laugh and getting in trouble. I was the class clown.
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I like '50s and '60s American art. I have 85 or 90 Warhols.
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Pablo wanted to be loved and accepted. He wanted to destroy the elite he despised so much, but he also wanted to be the president of Colombia.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
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A rite of passage in America when you turn 50 and have good health insurance is a colonoscopy.
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I always knew I'd get caught sooner or later. And I knew I would end up going to prison.
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Do you think anybody knows that I'm Irish?
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I'm from the south side of Atlanta, College Park, and we all really care about our dress code and our apparel and our attire, so I think it's just something that started when I was growing up. Just trying to be me and up to date and being an individual at the same time.
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I'm just a regular guy trying to make my dream come true like everybody else.
