Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
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When you're a child, it's easy to see school as the worst thing in the world. It's only later in life you realise what a wonderful time it was. Looking back, I can't believe I even wanted to leave.
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I don't know what's on the other side.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I've always been clear - I feel good at Chelsea. Every week, I repeat the same on PSG. It's a big team but an inferior league. I don't want to return to France, because I've won everything over there - the league title, cup, best player, best young player.
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During my childhood, I was surrounded by actors, and all I remember is they were fun to be around. That kind of sticks.
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The deadpan brilliance of John McCrea has been underrepresented in music since 2004, when Cake served up 'Pressure Chief.'
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I was a baseball guy. Mom wouldn't let me play football when I was little because she was scared I'd get hurt. So, I finally convinced her to let me play in 7th grade.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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When is the last time Nancy Pelosi tried to pass ANYTHING to help save the middle class money? UH NEVER. Says the American people.com
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We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.
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I rot on the wall, my ownDorian Gray.
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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin.
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There's some of me in all my characters.
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I'm a composer, and therefore I know when I've written a good tune. When you've written a good song is when you know that the lyric is completely coalesced with the song.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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That's actually about my dad's ex-wife believe it or not!. Actually a lot of the stuff that's in that song actually happened, like my laundry being thrown out, and stuff like that. So that was inspired by my dad's ex-wife.
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
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I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.
