Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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The notion of 'reduce and refine' is one I've pursued. I truly believe that by making things less complex, by finding innovative ways to make sustainability affordable, we can advance the notion that it is possible.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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Investment in training is a huge necessity for knowledge-based corporations.
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I would never purposely sing a song about someone I love, I wouldn't want to embarrass them. But for someone I don't like... I would definitely do that.
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is.
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If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it.
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Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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Let your customers be your partners; let your vendors be your employees. What's necessary in this transformation more than anything else is courage and a willingness to change.
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I feel lucky that I got to work with some of the big legends in town.
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I have now so many fundamental thoughts, so many really metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write more, not to think more, but allow the fever of saying to make me sleepy, and fondle, with closed eyes, as if to a cat, all that I could have said.
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What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.
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Three thousand people died at ground zero. Their families are entitled to a little bit of respect, to respect the memory of those poor people that died there. And how about the families of all those soldiers that died in the two ensuing wars? Aren't they entitled to a little bit of respect - the kids, the wives, the parents?
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A lot of comedy films, there's the opinion, 'Well, if it's funny, put it in.' But I think you have to be more disciplined than that.
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I know a lot of actors who started out as musicians and have very successful careers as actors, but most people don't know them as musicians.
