"Fear, safety, and conformity make you mediocre and average"

-- Alonzo King

#Average Quotes #Safety Quotes #Conformity Quotes

“It's not about what it looks like in the studio or on the runway. It's what it looks like on a real person that matters.”
“The only remarkable thing about Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Part II is the insistent manner in which it recalls how much better his original film was. Even if Part II were a lot more cohesive, revealing and exciting than it is, it probably would have run the risk of appearing to be the self-parody it now seemsâ€¦Its insights are fairly lame at this point.”

Source : "‘Godfather, Part II’ Is Hard to Define" by Vincent Canby, www.nytimes.com. December 13, 1974.
“The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.”
“I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be”
“Too many people go through life complaining about their problems. I've always believed that if you took one tenth the enrgy you put into complaining and applied it to solving the problem, you'd be surprised by how well things can work out.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's cool. One of the dudes who I made my album with who I'm a very good friend of for quite a while, I lived on his sofa for a while. And he's a professional guitar player, and he played for One Direction. And so I'd wake up on a sofa sometimes with Harry from One Direction on the other sofa, and I'd kind of be like 'you alright?'”
“It is worth it to serve the Lord, young people. It is worth it, it is worth it, it is worth it a million times.”
“Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture.”

Source : Francis Spufford (2012). “Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense”, p.8, Faber & Faber

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