Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• The environmental movement, like all political processes, reacts best to disasters. But these are very slow, very gradual disasters in the making.

  

  Ted Danson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Environmental

• People don't understand that the feel of the surface is so important for a footballer. The ball travels on the surface; our feet move on the surface - all of that goes into how the game is actually played.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • Important
  • Game

• I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Music
  • Knew
  • Wrote

• I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Religious

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• Whenever I write a new song, it always happens when I come back from Europe or Egypt or something like that. It's always from travelling.

  

  Yuna
  • Song
  • Always
  • Egypt

• I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.

  

  Yuri Kochiyama
  • Country
  • School
  • High

• A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • People
  • Drawing
  • Irish

• My dream was to become a very small blonde movie star like Ida Lupino and those other women I saw up there on the screen during the Depression.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Up
  • Women
  • Movie

• All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Up
  • Water
  • Air

• At ABC Cocina and Kitchen, 90 percent of our produce and vegetables come from Union Square, and that's all from upstate New York farmers. We are simply committed to this idea of local, organic food.

  

  Jean-Georges Vongerichten
  • Food
  • Kitchen

• Politics has become entertainment.

  

  Joe Eszterhas

• Luck and being honest and sincere about work has worked for me and helped me reach where I am.

  

  Katrina Kaif
  • Work
  • Luck

• We obviously would like to get unemployment as low as we possibly can.

  

  Jacob Lew

• I'm claustrophobic. I can't go into haunted houses. They have these tight, dark, enclosed space. I freak out. That's my phobia. It gets me out of stuff. Someone asks me to do something and I tell them I can't because I'm claustrophobic.

  

  Mark Consuelos
  • Space
  • Dark

• One, I never get sick of talking about myself.

  

  David Wain
  • Sick

• I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids.

  

  Jerry Lewis
  • Kids

• I almost should have a shirt made: 'Jill Soloway has changed my life...' Not only changed my life with the opportunity to play Maura, but the opportunity and the responsibility of playing Maura.

  

  Jeffrey Tambor
  • Life
  • Opportunity
  • Responsibility

• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  • Men

• The remoteness of my parents from the schools, so unfashionable today, was often painful for me, but I learned early to deal with an outside and sometimes hard world.

  

  Martin Lewis Perl
  • World
  • Today
  • Parents

• In Mudcrutch we all wrote songs, and when it got to the focus on Tom and the Heartbreakers, I kept writing songs, but it wasn't anything that was up the Heartbreakers tree, I didn't think - and I don't think they did, either. So I kept writing songs for the hell of it, but I didn't want to make a record just for the sake of making a record.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Focus

• The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

  

  Chris Colfer
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• He or she must be successful in economic terms, but always within an ethical framework. Whether his or her constituency is a corporation and its shareholders or the customers in a small and privately held business, his or her first responsibility is to serve that constituency.

  

  Lee R. Raymond
  • She
  • Business
  • Small

• I like to write when I feel I'm the real me.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Writing
  • Real
  • Feels