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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The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.
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Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.
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All people - white, black, whatever - are tribal in the sense that we relate to that which is familiar to us.
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I definitely want to play someone who's inspired me. I would love to play Aaliyah; it would be personal because I love her so much.
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My grandmother was the matriarch. If you didn't have a place to stay, if you needed food, if you were just coming out of jail or rehab, you went to her. Watching her in our family and our wider community was what inspired me and still does.
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There are so many artists that have inspired me.
