J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes

I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.

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• Whatever good or bad is said by former cricketers is considered gospel. Our media should not blow out of proportion the opinion of former cricketers.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Opinion

• I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.

  

  A. E. van Vogt
  • Feeling
  • Years
  • End

• The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.

  

  Ice T
  • Movie
  • City
  • Day

• Beautiful updos with natural hair are great!

  

  Zendaya
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Hair

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Life
  • Art
  • Fear

• I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can to come up with something that feels truthful and feels real - as close to the skin as I can get it.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Up
  • Real
  • Trying

• I do boxing; I do a little jiu jitsu, which I am obsessed with.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Boxing
  • Obsessed
  • Jiu jitsu

• I think an ethical lawyer would absolutely refuse, if he or she had knowledge that this is the purpose for which her work would be used, that is, to conceal a fraudulent scheme from federal regulators.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Work
  • She
  • Knowledge

• The most wonderful study of mankind is man. Relieving human suffering and diffusing universal knowledge is humanitarian.

  

  Daniel D. Palmer
  • Man
  • Knowledge
  • Suffering

• Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Political
  • Past
  • Eyes

• I have not spoken to him directly. Here's the reason. Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he's gonna say all the right things to me. I'm not interested in words. I'm interested in actions.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Experience
  • Guy
  • Words

• The trappings of a monarchy would set up an ordinary commonwealth.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Up

• Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Moments

• Real theology is always rather shocking to people who already think they know what they think. I'm still shocked myself.

  

  Larry Wall
  • People
  • Real

• Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It cannot be fabricated out of public relations. It comes to us when we are alone, in quiet moments, in quiet places, when we suddenly realize that, knowing the good, we have done it; knowing the beautiful, we have served it; knowing the truth, we have spoken it.

  

  Alfred Whitney Griswold
  • Good
  • Done
  • Truth

• Sydney: Imagine the cinematography if Ennis and Jack had been able to live together. Sweeping vistas of their couples therapist's office.

  

  Alison Bechdel
  • Live
  • Together

• As long as offices are open to all men and no constitutional rank is established, it is pure republicanism.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Men
  • Long

• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Truth
  • Bitter

• I don't want to be in somebody else's movie, and then they make all the money. I've gotten offers to do the movies, but I won't sell myself short and be in somebody else's movie, like 'Boyz N the Hood.' I don't think I woulda done that.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • Money
  • Done
  • Movie

• When you a ghetto star, when you a hood star, you gonna take care of your grandmother, your mother. When you on that next level, you gotta take care of the city, the streets.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Mother
  • City
  • Star

• When you're hanging there twenty feet off the ground, surrounded by green screen, and all you've got is the other actor and the wonderful Gavin Hood shouting instructions at you as to what's going on; it's a really unique experience.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Experience
  • Unique
  • Green

• I always show love to the local record stores because they actually listen to me... They know the songs on my cds. They look like me, straight out the hood. They know whats hot and what is on they shelf.

  

  Webbie
  • Like
  • Listen
  • Hood

• I'm no savior, and I'm no Robin Hood.

  

  J Balvin
  • Hood