Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
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Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.
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Bank failures are caused by depositors who don't deposit enough money to cover losses due to mismanagement.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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The nation is faced with one of the most corporate-orientated anti-consumer Congresses in our history.
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Look good, feel good, play good.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated.
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One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.
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My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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I have been listening a lot to The Carpenters and Neil Diamond, Elton John, and thinking, like, 'God, it'd be great to write a sort of subversive, alternative ballad,' like Lou Reed does so well with 'Perfect Day.' And I really loved 'Video Games' - at the time, it hadn't really got as big, but it's a classic song; you can't deny it.
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I haven't signed as many films as I'd like to because there are no good roles, as disheartening as it is to say.
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The house where I grew up in the Hancock Park section of Los Angeles was like a dream - even though my family faced threats after my father bought it in August 1948.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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Sickness, the serpent, is coming to bite you,Death, the old dark man, is coming to carry you off,Rest uneasy, you stinking carrion, on your gold beds.
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One of my earliest memories is being inside the recording studio and I see the shadow of a figure that looks an awful lot like Walt Disney. Then the door opened and Mr. Disney walked in and said, 'Hi Clint.' I won't ever forget that.
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You know nothing of war. War is dark. Black as pitch. It is not a God. It does not laugh or weep. It rewards neither skill nor daring. It is not a trial of souls, not the measure of wills. Even less is it a tool, a means to some womanish end. It is merely the place where the iron bones of the earth meet the hollow bones of men and break them.
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I'm not one for Knute Rockne speeches and so I'm not going to start now. I did tell the kids the other night that they are my favorite team not because of the success we've had on the court. But because of the kind of people they are. They are just a tremendous group of young men.
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I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene that people have to replicate.
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I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
