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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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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There's one thing that I like about Rome that was stated by Napoleon: that from sublime to pathetic is only one step away. And in Rome there's a constant shifting between sublime and pathetic.
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Dad couldn't train me. He was too high-strung, like, 'Throw your jab!' and I'd start crying.
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We were always a middle-class family who took pride in our little set-up.
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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.
