Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
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When I was about four, people used to walk up to my mom and say I should be in commercials.
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If I still had my legs, I would be in line for a battalion command, and instead, I'm flying a desk.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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I think of myself as a very ordinary person. I like writing about the juxtaposition between people: the beauty of them at times and then the banal, everyday context in which we find ourselves.
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I'm not going to let people get away with either a dishonest or inaccurate premise to what we're talking about because I think that does the viewer a disturbance.
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I don't think anyone's particularly conscious of thinking suits are the thing, but when you see a comedian on stage in jeans and a t-shirt it doesn't matter how good they are - it always looks like amateur hour when they walk onto the stage.
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The human family is a great one, and the Muslim branch is certainly worth knowing.
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Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.
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In both the world of fashion and politics, what's required to succeed is passion, dedication, and vision.
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You see, the Greenhouse Effect is a direct result of burning fossil or old carbon fuels.
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People may believe that there can be a society where dissent is not permitted, but which is nonetheless not a fear society because everyone agrees with one another and therefore no one wants to dissent.
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History is the revelation of providence.
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Oh, no. Not me, not Marshall. You want to see Marshall? I'll show you Marshall! I tried to show you art, but you just pick it apart.
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At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?
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I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.
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The bad things are that our financing of health care is really a moral morass. It is a moral morass in the sense that it signals to the doctors and hospitals that human beings have different values depending on their income status.
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Adaptations, especially movie musicals, are really hard to do.
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Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..
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George Wendt is a saint. And one of the finest American actors that we have.
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Bravery is not the absence of fear. Bravery is the ability to operate effectively even while totally terrified.
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I have seen my mugshot.
