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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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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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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But love like that doesn’t just disappear, does it? No matter how powerful the hate, there’s always a little love left, underneath.Yes. Horrible, isn’t it?
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No one wants to stay in the tabloids. But it's actually not a terrible place to start.
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I think one wants lots of different lives.
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It's fun to get a message on the phone service that Lucille Ball or Burt Reynolds called, and play it very blase by asking, 'Anyone else?'
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My idol was Terry Bradshaw, but my role model was my father because I saw how much he worked and how much he focused on his trade. I was brought up the right way.
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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.
