J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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Irrespective of any political party, I am a supporter of good people who want to do something for the society.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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I love working the legislative process.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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I doubt there's any government in the world that guides itself primarily by strategy or conceptual documents or worldview. Anybody who has the reins of power has to look at practical limitations and tradeoffs - the fact that you can focus at most on one or two things at a time, that resources are limited.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
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Animal vision - including human vision - is so biased toward movement that we don't technically see stationary objects at all.
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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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Prostitution and corruption are two things that mankind has had to live with for so long.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
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In the early 16th century the Italian physician Jacopo Berengario da Carpi, a pioneer in the science of anatomy, came up with the idea that perhaps 'brain commotion' was caused by the thrust of the soft structure of the brain against the solid case of the skull.
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Between the theme parks and the movies, the Disney iconography was probably the first set of archetypes that I was exposed to. Walt was able to expose me as a child to the full array of emotions, including fear and sorrow. Those movies and attractions haunted my dreams and made a deep impression on me as a child.
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I want films to haunt an audience, to give them something to remember and be able to talk about.
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I still say I have no interest in being an actor - I just love acting.
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We're not aware of fame itself, we're not that kind of band.
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I just want people to respect what I do.
