J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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We don't make glamorous movies today. Everything now is very realistic, artistic - and depressing. When is the last time you you saw a wonderful musical or a fabulous fantasy?
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I am especially grateful, however, to have known the fifties, before we began to poison our own civilization - or at least before the effects of the poison began to be felt.
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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it.
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I was working in restaurants as a captain and as a waiter.
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I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.
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I'm going to fight to the death for a public option.
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As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
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Every single one of the guys that I've written songs about has been tracked down on MySpace by my fans.
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The fold is that place where He keeps His flock shut behind the hurdles of the Ten Commandments. Every now and then, a sheep leaps one of these hurdles or pushes his way between them and runs away into forbidden pastures. Then the Good Shepherd goes after the erring sheep and brings it back.
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The federal government has not been effective enough monitoring and surveilling bad guys.
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When you save book reports, art projects and put them in a scrapbook, it shows a kid you care and you are taking an interest in their lives.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Japan needs the American market and it also needs American security protection. Japan also needs America as the necessary stabilizer of an orderly world system with economies truly open to international trade.
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My grandparents were wealthy; my mom was not. I would walk into these worlds of privilege and then walk back into this other world. My little brother is biracial. So race and economic class and sexuality - these were always issues that were a part of my life.
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In the end, how much distance lies between the truth and what we believe to be true? Between the things we feel at one time and the things we end up doing?
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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As for waxing, I've never waxed in my life and I never would. I'm extremely Welsh, so I draw the line at removing body hair.
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I invite you to get out of the box, be yourself. If you have blue hair, pink, yellow; if you have a broken tooth; if you have other sexual preferences... be yourself. Fight for your happiness always.
