Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.
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'Negative liberty' is a political science term meaning a liberty from government action. It is not a liberty to anything - like the liberty to meaningfully contribute to public debate or to have ample spaces for speech.
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I like pushing boundaries.
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I've had people appear in my life that have helped me. I had more fun. I approached it thinking how would Jack Nicholson, "How would he do it?" So that's really what I did was I created this Gremlin character. So now people come up and they say 'Oh The Exorcist!'.. and I'm like "Did you see Repossessed?" They say either no or yes or whatever, and I say look at this, have a laugh, and then go back and look at a masterpiece .
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Ironically, to my children, bedtime is a punishment that violates their basic rights as human beings.
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I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.
