Jose Gonzalez
Jose Gonzalez
NationalitySwedish
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth31 July 1978
CountrySweden
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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.
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We controlled most of the game. It took us a while to settle down. But once we did, we were all right. Now we have the toughest part of our schedule coming up.
game played though ugly
We just played an ugly game. Nothing went right. Even though we won, the way we played our game wasn't to our standards. It was just ugly.
music
I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.
broken hand recognize system type types
On the one hand you have the need for this type of employee. On the other hand you have a flawed, broken immigration system that doesn't recognize there is a need for these types of workers.
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I grew up with a strong Spanish influence. I tried to learn flamenco when I was younger. But it's like my teacher said: 'It takes a lifetime to learn flamenco.'
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But there's a lot of eyes out there now, with the (Army) Corps of Engineers and all the contractors, so I suspect if something happened again, we'd know pretty soon, ... Then we'd get busy mobilizing our people.
developers labor people projects sort traveled word work
When those projects started, the builders, the developers could not find the labor force. And as the word got out it traveled fast, and so people started coming. As people started coming, they said, 'Hey, there's a lot of work here,' and so that's what sort of triggered it.
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We always had a guitar at home, but it wasn't until I was 14 when I picked it up myself when my father handed me these sheets of music of the Beatles and some other classics. That's where I learned all the chords and learned how to play and sing at the same time.
aging aware couple dying last though
I think I've become more aware of aging in the last couple of years because of friends dying of cancer or friends' parents dying and myself - I'm still healthy, but I'm aging, and that's something that I think about more, even though I shouldn't be too concerned.
expect people record smile
People often expect me to be very serious, but it's not like my record company told me not to smile in photographs, because I was like that anyway.
money throwing wasting wisely
I think we have to use it real wisely because if not, we'll be just wasting a lot of money just throwing it away.
stay team together
That was the most important thing to see this weekend, to see where we are at. If we stay together as a team this year, we're going to do very well. I can't see us not making the playoffs.
bit guess known leaving people quiet room shyness sweden
I think Sweden is known for people being a bit more quiet than other cultures, and I guess it's a mixture: shyness and leaving room for other people to talk. Of course, when people get drunk, all of that disappears.