Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• I suspect I am like most people on the Internet in that I sign up for all sorts of sites and frequently use the same passwords.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • People
  • Internet
  • Passwords

• I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

  

  Cameron Sinclair
  • Community
  • Build
  • Hats

• I used to have to force myself to go, okay, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing and then all of a sudden a thought of some where could come in. Now I can just focus and not think about anything. So, yeah, I guess I do that a lot.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Focus
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Well, you know, I've had a very checkered career.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Career
  • You
  • Know

• I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.

  

  Wayne Knight
  • Real
  • Why
  • Small

• When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Work
  • Opinion
  • Start

• Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • You
  • Nice
  • Medicine

• I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Always
  • Dare
  • Experiment

• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Look

• I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

  

  Abba Eban
  • War
  • History
  • Peace

• If Clinton is elected or if Trump is going to get elected, I think the polarization in Congress will be greater than ever. Nothing is going to get done. It is going to be so ugly, so partisan, so back-biting. Well what if you elect a couple of Libertarians?

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Done
  • Think
  • Couple

• We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and the frightened mindset that tells us that certain 'others' are of no consequence.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Special

• I'm belligerent rather than ambitious.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Ambitious
  • Rather
  • Than

• I think I'm actually more vulnerable than people imagine.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • People
  • Think
  • More

• Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Down
  • Debate
  • Rather

• Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Opportunity
  • Me
  • Learning

• Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Never
  • Four

• 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.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Long
  • Writing
  • May

• We need not only open trading systems, but systems that work for people around the world - taking into account not only the bottom line, but the well-being of working men and women, the protection of children against sweatshop labor, and the protection of the environment.

  

  Al Gore
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• As soon as war is declared it will be impossible to hold the poets back. Rhyme is still the most effective drum.

  

  Jean Giraudoux
  • War

• Sometimes success needs interruption to regain focus and shake off complacency.

  

  Lennox Lewis
  • Success
  • Focus
  • Complacency

• Scientifically speaking, if I say something, or it gets misquoted, or people put a spin on it... I mean, are you interested, really, in what people are saying?

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • People
  • You
  • Saying

• I am a closet toy freak. I started chasing after some things as far as Star Wars toys - some very rare stuff.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • War
  • Stars
  • Freak