Vance Joy (James Gabriel Keogh) Quotes
I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I just want to do my job.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.
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I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.
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Colorado cannot afford to become the next California, with skyrocketing taxes that hurt our state's economy and our quality of life.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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Comedy is such a vulnerable thing. With drama, you're not trying to make someone cry. If you do, great, but that's not your goal. With comedy, you're trying to make someone laugh, so to me, it's harder because you are in such a vulnerable position. You're like, 'I hope people like this. I hope I do the joke justice.'
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I've been grateful that 'Time's' reach and mandate is so broad; anything you're interested in, you can usually write about.
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Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.
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The Gili Islands gave me some of my best scuba diving experiences, including tons of turtles.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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I'd find it demeaning to be cleaning toilets.
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In most daily journalism, you only fact-check something if it seems a little fishy.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into bottles when years ago it used to roll down and go into the lakes?
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People who are constantly looking for the opportunity to do something new are also people who are not going to be helped by having job titles - job titles create expectations of specialization and focus which don't map really well to creating the best possible experience for your customers.
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I've done a couple of conferences where you sit and sign autographs for people, and then you have photographs taken with them and a lot of them all dressed up in alien suits or 'Doctor Who' whatevers. I was terrified of doing it because I thought they'd all be loonies, but they are absolutely, totally charming as anything. It's great fun.
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Fred and George turned to each other and said together, "Wow, we're identical!" "I dunno though, I think I'm still better looking," said Fred, examining his reflection in the kettle.
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We need to reshape our own perception of how we view ourselves. We have to step up as women and take the lead.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
