J Balvin (José Álvaro Osorio Balvin) Quotes
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	The world is always in movement.   
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	I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.   
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	The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.   
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	I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.   
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	The little trouble in the world that is not due to love is due to friendship.   
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	My perspective is the Earth will be here. It just may not be habitable to our life form. We get confused. We think we're the center of everything.   
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	Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.   
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	It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.   
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	These rejections hurt me terribly because I felt it was my life that was being rejected.   
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	Having been on a private jet only two or three times, it's one of life's great luxuries.   
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	You can get beat any day.   
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	When I started performing in public, I was probably around 10 or 11.   
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	There was a time when I was offered two episodes of 'Alias,' that show with Jennifer Garner which J.J. Abrams did back before he became the mega producer and super successful director. I instead decided I wanted to play this family guy on a short-lived UPN 'Second Time Around.' It starred Boris Kodjoe and Nicole Ari Parker.   
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	My mother was a union member. She was a mail carrier, a rural mail carrier. She called herself a 'postal packin' grandma' for a good period of time.   
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	SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away   
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	It is a funny view of the world that a book can cause riots.   
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	Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.   
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	I went to Brooklyn College and met this beautiful Jewish girl named Merle, with dark hair, exotic looking and brilliant. So we got married and had three children.   
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	It's really hard for me to sometimes put myself out there, like 'Hey, how do you feel about making music together?' because maybe I'm afraid of rejection or I don't want to put anybody out. It's the Southerner in me, like, 'I don't mean to bother you but do you mind making a song?'   
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	Australians are gypsies by nature. I've been fortunate enough to experience different regions of the world.   
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	I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?   
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	My father-in-law, Barney Rawlings, spent a couple of months hiding out in France in 1944, frantically memorizing a few French words to pass himself off as a Frenchman, but his ordeal had not inspired in me any action until I started taking a French class.   
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	There are so many artists that have inspired me.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					