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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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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Repression can only go up to a point. When it becomes too acute, the instruments of repression, namely the army and the police, have been proved time and time again in history to have turned their guns on their masters.
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My claim is simply that the literary approach is one necessary way to read and interpret the Bible, an approach that has been unjustifiably neglected. Despite that neglect, the literary approach builds at every turn on what biblical scholars have done to recover the original, intended meaning of the biblical text.
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Long-term relationships are an everyday choice. It's harder to be in a marriage than it is to bounce from one relationship to the next.
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Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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There is such a thing as the poetry of a mistake, and when you say, "Mistakes were made," you deprive an action of its poetry, and you sound like a weasel.
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Politics doesn't interest me in the least.
