J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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You don't always get to work as much as you like, because I'm waiting to find things that I care about. Sometimes that's frustrating.
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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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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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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 not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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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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World music is about taking things from different places and bringing them together - which is great.
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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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On 'Sullivan,' you sang live. Not only that, you sang with a 40-piece band. So you had instruments that weren't even on the original record! So this was when the rubber met the road - when you had to really learn how to perform. And it was for 10 or 12 million people. So that was a challenge.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I think people tend to apply where they think the greatest opportunities lie.
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I wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.
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I just want people to respect what I do.
