Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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The Indian story has never been written. Maybe I am the man to do it.
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When people are bewildered they tend to become credulous.
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What's done to children, they will do to society.
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The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.
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Pat Buchanan likes to say we're in a culture war. The Civil War was a culture war, and brothers killed brothers. I wonder if they avoided dinner conversation about politics. What if this culture war turned into a real war? I'd look back on that dinner and wish that I'd ordered a side of argument.6
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I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show.
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The soul, he said, is composed Of the external world.
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When I arrived, a hundred women were there auditioning... I raised my voice three registers, curled up in a chair, licked my hand and did ‘meow’s ,the director said, 'I didn’t tell her to do any of that stuff' – but the next day I got the part. Caesar Romero, Burgess Meredith, I was so lucky to work with all of them.
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Stanley Kramer? Spencer Tracy? No one turns down being in a movie with them.
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You can safely appeal to the United Nations in the comfortable certainty that it will let you down.
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Every woman in her late 20s goes through a period where she just doesn't believe love is out there anymore, but it is. And I think the minute you stop looking for it is when it comes for you.
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I'll do shoes for the lady who lunches, but it would be, like, a really nasty lunch, talking about men.
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I made and created a show that my family was all on board with, and we were so excited because we got to work together.
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We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization.
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So long as our Corps fields such Marines, America has nothing to fear from tyrants, be they Fascists, Communists or Tyrants with Medieval Ideology. For we serve in a Corps with no institutional confusion about our purpose: To fight! To fight well!
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What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
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Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment.
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It's not the fact that your single can sell. It's the fact that you can sell hard tickets. People will spend money to see you.
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It is the distinguishing glory of Christianity not to rest satisfied with superficial appearances, but to rectify the motives, and purify the heart.
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For myself, personally, I am never really aware of timing or anything because I am passionate about what I do, so I have found that if you really love what you do, then time flies.
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My wife and I have built trust with our children and have always had open communication.
