J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.
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Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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If I hadn't have been good enough at football, I'd have been a sports journalist - which is what I do now anyway. Or a cricketer. I might have been a cricketer.
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Different times need different types of leadership.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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I have no fancy living at all. Well, I have a house in Sun Valley. Five acres in the woods. I guess that's fancy.
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What the cops did to Rodney King was wrong, and the officers who beat him should be sent straight to prison.
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Biographies are no longer written to explain or explore the greatness of the great. They redress balances, explore secret weaknesses, demolish legends.
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If you want to be told what to think, well, I'm not in that business.
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Singing is something I've always loved to do, and I'd never considered taking it further than the shower.
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Secrets interest us all, I think.
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Fingerprints prove you Greystoke. Congratulations. D'Arnot.
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My greatest wish - other than salvation - was to have a book.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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Manchester is one of the biggest clubs in the world and I'm very happy because I am part of this great club, this great group.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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Fame infantilises and grants relative impunity. Those that seek it, out of an exaggerated need for admiration or attention, are often the least well equipped to deal with criticism.
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Politics doesn't interest me in the least.
