Jose Gonzalez Quotes
I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.
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My parents wouldn't have sent me out into the world with wool over my eyes. You have to be aware, or you'll be swallowed.
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Fortunately, I grew up in a family that was grounded. My mother and father knew how to guide my career and look out for my best interests.
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Who have I picked fights with over the years? Bill Gates. Google. Mark Zuckerberg. Even - despite everything that's written about my relationship with Steve Jobs - we had yelling matches.
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You have to follow that next step.
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You feel like you're really a part of a movement when you're singing Journey at a karaoke bar.
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I think I was 9, and my mom ordered them for me from a catalogue. They bred like crazy, and I was selling gerbils all around Michigan. They wrote a story about me in the local newspaper.
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At Time Warner, I had ten percent of the stock after the merger. But when we merged with AOL, I was diluted down to three percent.
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Trade is a communication of cultures and values.
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Nothing I ever did I expected to do. It just kind of happened.
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The first TV show I worked on was with the guys from 'Little Britian,' Matt Lucas and David Walliams, who did a show in 1995 I directed, 'Mash and Peas.'
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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I've had little success in intellectual circles. I'm not talked about in the 'New York Review of Books,' and I was never part of the Stravinsky 'inner circle.'
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The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?
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It was a very big principle in my upbringing that you should respect everybody's work. The street sweeper. Everybody. You should never look down on anybody for their work.
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Real estate investing is unique in that it's almost as much a career or a way of life as it is a form of investing. Indeed, the fact that real estate is involves so much sweat equity makes it unique among other investments.
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And be prepared. Luck is truly where preparation meets opportunity.
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He was not so anxious to prove himself right, as to be so.
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I have lived among Negroes, all my life, and I am for this Government with slavery under the Constitution as it is. I am for the Government of my fathers with Negroes, I am for it without Negroes. Before I would see this Government destroyed, I would send every negro back to Africa, disintegrated and blotted out of space.
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I don't think villains think they are villains.
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You need a spiritual foundation. Something that allows you to see how you connect to the rest of the universe. It's simple stuff, but it's hard.
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Evidence points out that if you raise tariffs too much it will increase smuggling.
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I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
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Every little detail of my life is, and has always been, surrounded by fashion - from the cup I drink my coffee from in the morning to my constant travels - fashion always pops up somewhere and somehow.
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I'm a very slow reader - I read maybe three or four books a year - so I listen to podcasts and the occasional audiobook, and I watch TED talks.
