J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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We can see cities during the day and at night, and we can watch rivers dump sediment into the ocean, and see hurricanes form.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I tend to write short, brief snippets - I lean toward the chamber music end as opposed to the symphony end of things.
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If you are in a relationship, it has to be a good one. If it isn't, it's best to just leave it.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.
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The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.
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I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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Splendid architecture, the love of your life, an old friend... they can all go drifting by unseen if you're not careful.
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EmTech Asia brings together some of the brightest minds in technology and computer security.
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LCD Soundsystem - they put the drummer in front. I always thought that was cool. Because the drummer is usually the guy in the back.
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I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.
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I went to some sports camps when I was really young and hated it. So I changed and went to camps where I could dance all morning and act all afternoon.
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When we tackle obstacles, we find hidden reserves of courage and resilience we did not know we had. And it is only when we are faced with failure do we realise that these resources were always there within us. We only need to find them and move on with our lives.
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In the summer, you miss the match days, but my wife gets angry, as she doesn't see me on weekends. And football is work. I'm still working on the weekends.
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I don't want to make music only for Latinos. The idea is always to make a global sound.
