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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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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My parents managed a summer camp, and it was vacant for about seven or eight months out of the year. It was in the middle of nowhere in the woods. We backed up to a state forest. So absolutely, there were creepy woods all around the house. It was easy to get lost. It was really spooky.
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'Mad Men' still lives in my life as the best job that I've ever had because I thought the character was genius. It was so well-written.
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Photographs and reality are just night and day. In reality, the information is all there. A photograph is just kind of a hint.
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Everything that happens to me is very cosmic.
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Baltimore was like a small town when I got there - the Colts, the Orioles, guys like Frank Robinson, we all knew and respected each other. Everyone would cross paths at one point at Lenny Moore's Sportsman's Lounge, trading stories and having some fun.
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Students using astrophysical textbooks remain essentially ignorant of even the existence of plasma concepts, despite the fact that some of them have been known for half a century. The conclusion is that astrophysics is too important to be left in the hands of astrophysicists who have gotten their main knowledge from these textbooks. Earthbound and space telescope data must be treated by scientists who are familiar with laboratory and magnetospheric physics and circuit theory, and of course with modern plasma theory.
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If the timing's right and the gods are with you, something special happens.
