Georgie Fame Quotes
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
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The name of the game is to keep from pushing the accelerator pedal so hard that we speed up the aging process. The average American, however, by living a fast and furious lifestyle, pushes that accelerator too hard and too much.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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I'm pretty good at sticking to what I know. You don't see me social commentating on health-care or presidential debates. I talk about what I know because I'm petrified of being wrong.
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The media has changed. We now give broadcast licenses to philosophies instead of people. People get confused and think there is no difference between news and entertainment. People who project themselves as journalists on television don't know the first thing about journalism. They are just there stirring up a hockey game.
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Design is about point of view, and there should be some sort of woman or lifestyle or attitude in one's head as a designer.
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We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environmental justice. We have fought for criminal justice. Now we must add a new fight - the fight for electoral justice.
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I love the exploration of someone who has such a different background from you. That exploration runs to compassion and to cracking yourself open and creating more understanding of how weird and amazing life is.
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
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I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.
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I've got the best shoe guy in the business.
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If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
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One of the questions I face when working on a book about a historical event is whether I should visit the actual place that I'm writing about. No matter how scrupulously maintained a historic house or battlefield may be, it is nothing like it was in the long-ago past.
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It’s plain that if I married you for brains I was plumb cheated.
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In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.
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There are no mistakes in life, just lessons.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God.
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It is opposition to economic orthodoxy that leads us into austerity and cuts. But it is also a thirst for something more communal, more participative. That, to me, is what is interesting in this process.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
