J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
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It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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Becoming a 'Sir' is slightly uncomfortable at first, although it is a considerable honor. It is amazing how quickly you become accustomed to it.
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All you have to do is come to Ohio and say, 'I think NAFTA is a lousy deal,' and everybody cheers.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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The pace of innovation may slow down or speed up depending on the appetite in the public markets, but the constant progress of technology doesn't really ever stop. There's always opportunities for new ideas and creative people to go build great things. I'm always interested in learning about those kinds of opportunities.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I've played quite a large spectrum of teenaged girls, from psychotic to very sweet to a polygamist.
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If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.
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I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads.
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People who are over-educated become risk-averse.
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All the things that are in the past are in the past.
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I play very sweet characters, so people look at me like I'm the kid from 'The Wonder Years,' rather than Brad Pitt.
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We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.
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Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
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When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.
