Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• I was a go-go dancer at the Dom on East 10th Street in NYC. This was a glittering ballroom over Stanley's Bar. 1965.

  

  Fanny Howe
  • Street
  • Over
  • Bar

• There are lots of films I wish stopped at installment number one. I like 'Back to the Future Part II' and 'Part III' enough, but I still like the ending of the first one better.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Future
  • Wish
  • Ending

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Skills
  • Producer
  • Using

• Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Time
  • Friend
  • Enemy

• I like listening to music and driving. How do you say... It's the only way I can 'chillax.'

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Music
  • Listening
  • Driving

• A modern health and social care system has to be completely focussed on the needs of its users.

  

  Patricia Hewitt
  • Health
  • Care
  • Modern

• History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • History
  • Free
  • Expression

• I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.

  

  Larry David
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Reading

• My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• When you're competing, you don't have the choice of what the weather will be like. It really doesn't affect me. I ran one of my fastest times in the New York Diamond League meeting last year. It was raining pretty hard then.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • Pretty
  • Choice
  • New York

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hussein who'll give you seven months to move your forces in.

  

  Ralph Peters
  • Time
  • World
  • War

• Globalization, far from putting an end to power diplomacy between States, has, on the contrary, intensified it.

  

  Omar Bongo
  • Power
  • End
  • Globalization

• At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Sports
  • Training
  • Driving

• Something just happens when you're making a record, where certain things start to come out. It's just something in the air.

  

  Beck
  • You
  • Air
  • Start

• The only possible solution which will preserve Germany’s honor and Germany’s interest is, we repeat, a war with Russia.

  

  Karl Marx
  • War
  • Honor

• Mr Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.

  

  Aravind Adiga
  • English

• Learn to bet on yourself and have confidence in your own decisions. No one knows your business better than you.

  

  Leah Busque
  • Business
  • Confidence

• I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate us, as a species, and it's all rather frightening.

  

  Laurie Holden
  • World
  • Power
  • Control

• My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Culture
  • Rich
  • Listen

• People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.

  

  Anthony Hamilton
  • People

• There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Singers