Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
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I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
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I'm never nervous about being vulnerable with my songwriting because my favorite artists are ones that are vulnerable. I want people to feel like they know me.
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I think with girlfriends, you always want your girlfriends to make the decisions for themselves, not based on a boy, not based on anything other than, 'Is this what you want?' Is this you know what you want to do?' And that's real support to me.
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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I don't have any plugs or tucks but people do what they want. I look at it as mutilation.
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If you want a bourgeois existence, you shouldn't be an actor. You're in the wrong profession.
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Hunger and homelessness aren't things we always want to talk about.
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When we want to have our own style of living, it is nobody's business but ours. What we do in private is our private business.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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If the kids did want to get into showbiz then so be it, but I would never project anything on to my children.
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I know that I have probably an eight- to 10-year window in this league, and if I want to be what I say I want to be, then I have to commit myself 100 percent.
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I don't think you really have chemistry in the way that you want between two actors unless frustration is there as well.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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I think fans always want something new, but they want somebody who can deliver - to go out there and really entertain them and have good matches.
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Being a woman in country is really empowering. It's a genre where you can truly say whatever you want to say as long as you're 100% behind your message and who you are.
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I didn't want to be treated like a 'star.' I fought it constantly, and I think I was rude.
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I want people to know their palate is a snowflake. We all like different things. Why should we all have the same taste in wines?
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'Tyrannosaur's an arrival for me, but it's also the first step into a new career. I don't want to be moonlighting at this, like I have done with acting. Y'know, I think I've found my career at 37 years old.
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Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance.
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We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.
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I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
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The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters of our lives. It reflects the coming and going of the circumstances of our lives like the glassy surface of a pond that shows our faces radiant with joy or contorted with pain.
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On the way back we were constantly under heavy shell fire and I had to double time them to get them through safely. There was nothing to be gained by having any more of them wounded or killed. They had surrendered to me, and it was up to me to look after them. And so I did.
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You always want to feel you're not the only one going through something unpleasant.
