Jose Gonzalez Quotes
I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
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The media's gotten lazy. They don't check anything out. You report what he reports.
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Think and grow rich.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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Just as water is a key ingredient to growth on the farm, capital is required for businesses to thrive.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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Your focus should be on creating an environment where growth can occur and then letting nature take its course.
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Adulthood is not a goal. It's not seen as a gift.
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The return of democracy in our land has indeed thrown the problems of development into bolder relief.
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When I found this opportunity to answer the ad, I got the job and I've been there ever since.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Help is dangerous because it exists outside the human economy: the only payment for help is gratitude.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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On the Internet, everybody has an opinion about everything, but if you're smart, you know when to keep your mouth shut.
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On YouTube you can tell what countries are watching and I've definitely noted a strong Australian following. You can plan your tours around where the love is on Twitter and YouTube - before, you couldn't tell.
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Mint is designed to put your finances on auto-pilot. Whether you log in or not, it will send you a weekly summary of your balances and biggest purchases, and how your investments and budgets are doing, along with sending you alerts on unusual spending and low balances.
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Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.
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I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth.
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Mike Webster lost all his money or, maybe, gave it away. He forgot. A lot of lawsuits. Mike Webster forgot how to eat, too. Soon, Mike Webster was homeless, living in a truck, one of its windows replaced with a garbage bag and tape.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I was listening to a lot of hip hop, music like Public Enemy that was about raising consciousness, and I realised I could feed that directly into my work, using images in a way that was a bit like sampling - taking images from diverse places, exploring the contradictions without trying to hide the seams.
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Music is a tool that brings people together.
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I always start with the music and then try to figure out what I want to write about lyrically.
