Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

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• Woodstock had a tremendous impact on American artistic life.

  

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• For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

  

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• Considering all the legal hassle child stars can be, I won't be surprised when they are phased out by CGI children voiced by adult actors.

  

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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.

  

  Jacob deGrom
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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.

  

  Camille Claudel
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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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
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• One of the things that may appeal to teenagers is that vampires never change - they're frozen in that age.

  

  Nancy A. Collins
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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.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • America
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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.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
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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.

  

  Natalie Cole
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• It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.

  

  William Morris Davis
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• In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.

  

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• Working out has always been a stress reliever for me. I don't know if it's so much vanity as it more just keeps my mind from going crazy.

  

  Jim Rash
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• Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

  

  Bunker Roy
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• The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

  

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• I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Kids
  • Dark
  • Quiet