Jose Gonzalez Quotes
I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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We have to be careful not to have a form of militant secularism in our country, which is counter-productive for children we would like to see - adhere - to secularism.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I'm famous by default. I came out of the womb, and people wanted to know who I was because of my parents.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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I continue to be very shy. I think a lot of actors and performers are really weird, shy people working it out onstage. I don't know why that is.
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I hate thinking about clothes. I hate shopping.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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If I'm not interested in a woman, I'm straight-forward. Right after sex, I usually say, 'I can't do this anymore. Thanks for coming over!'
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I think it's a tough transition. It's easy to go from comedian to rapper, but to go from rapper to comedian is tougher.
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When you look at Apple News and where it started, I want it to be available to everyone. But we also want to make sure the news producers are legitimate... We're very concerned about what's news items and what's clickbait.
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We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.
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I'll probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. I'll try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and she's still doing the same thing.
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My success comes in making fun of whatever you're doing. That's my way.
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Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
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I speak Swedish, it's my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home.
