Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
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I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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My dear, did you ever stop to think what a wonderful bunker you would make?
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I was raised a Calvinist. You might think you know what that means, but let me explain it the way my mother preached it to my three sisters and me back when we were at home: 'I buy my girls Calvin Klein clothes, so that's all they know. Then, when they graduate from college, they have to figure out how to pay for them themselves.'
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People relate to me, and I try to make songs that make people smile.
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I think most of the dinosaur specimens we find represent subadult sizes.
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My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
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I've been careful in love. I've been careless in love. And I've had adventures I wouldn't trade for anything.
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It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.
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I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
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My generation, we really have to step up to the plate and vote. Tweeting is great - people say, 'Oh, I don't want this or that' - but at the end of the day, tweeting isn't a ballot. Just saying that you don't like someone on Twitter is not going to turn a state blue or red. You have to vote.
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If I'm in an uncomfortable situation, I think I can say something funny to defuse it. Sometimes you can't.
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We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!
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Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.
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Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
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Rebellion is always going to fascinate, as it's always packaged in a very safe way.
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A tough lesson in life that one has to learn is that not everybody wishes you well.
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To be successful, you only need one person to believe!
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I also learned to tell a story. I think I learned from poetry how to time a story. Poetry's timing, beats and pauses. That white space on the page is as important as the black. The bottom of the page is blackout. It's performance.
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Limousines used to be reserved for the ruling class, or, on special occasions, for the working class. Today, limousines are like taxicabs with the door handles still intact.
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And we must still try or we would be leaving our friends to fight without us. I think this is what you have meant by duty, all along; I do understand, at least this much of it.
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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
