"I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things."

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Source : "Why the evergreen Georgie Fame is peerless". Interview With Dave Gelly, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2010.

Georgie Fame

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“But the standard churchy spirituality doesn't require any real action, courage, or sacrifice from its attendees.”

Source : "The Faith of Leap: Embracing a Theology of Risk, Adventure & Courage (Shapevine)". Book by Alan Hirsch and Michael Frost, 2011.
“If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.”
“What worries some people about consumption (and I confess at the outset to be one of these ambivalent creatures, fat but troubled in paradise) is that the affluent, technologically advanced West seems more and more focused not on consuming to live but living to consume. The problem with consumption, and the consumer capitalism that has pushed it to feverish historical extremes, is that it has become so all-consuming.”
“Defending mediocrity is exhausting.”
“One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.”
“The hopelessness of the Turkish Government should make me witness with delight its being swept out of the countries which it tortures. Next to the Ottoman Government nothing can be more deplorable and blameworthy than jealousies between Greek and Slav and plans by the States already existing for appropriating other territory. Why not Macedonia for the Macedonians as well as Bulgaria for the Bulgarians and Serbia for the Serbians?”
“Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.”
“Any truth, no matter how valid, if emphasized to the exclusion of other truths of equal importance, is practical error.”

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