Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• My son jokes with me that he thinks I Google the word 'sad' to come up with book ideas.

  

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• A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

  

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• Some fella said to me, 'Have you had LSD, Paul?' And I said 'Yes.' And it was only 'cuz I was going to just be honest with him. There's no other reason. I didn't want to spread it or anything, you know. I'm not trying to do anything except answer his question. But he happened to be a reporter, and I happened to be a Beatle.

  

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• I know my heart, and have studied mankind; I am not made like any one I have been acquainted with, perhaps like no one in existence; if not better, I at least claim originality, and whether Nature did wisely in breaking the mould with which she formed me, can only be determined after having read this work.

  

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• I have faith in the universe, for it is rational. Law underlies each happening. And I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell. I'm concerned with this time-here and now.

  

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• The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.

  

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• I actually feel I'm in a much better place than I've ever been because I'm thankful people still love the songs that I've written, and they seem to like me. And they come to the shows in droves, and they get all excited, and I can still hit all the notes, and I don't look terrible.

  

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• You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.

  

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• I want to stand on a platform in the middle of Times Square and shout, 'You do not have to battle your Crohn's disease alone.'

  

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• Looking at America, which has so much wealth and potential and yet has so many deep-rooted problems, I think it gives us, as Canadians, an opportunity to be on the world stage on the climate change issue.

  

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• I don't separate architecture, design, or culture. What's more important is a language of creativity that carries meaning.

  

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• In Boston, I developed my eye from the drawing. In Paris, I was fascinated by what my eye saw in the way that Paris is built, its 'measure.'

  

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• People will always try to change you. They will always want you to be who they want you to be. That's fine because I'll always be exactly who I want to be.

  

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• In a way, I'm always trying to do something I'm not qualified to do. So I feel that lack of qualification. And I'm scared. And I have a tendency to think things may not/probably won't work out. That's my basic mindset.

  

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• Vietnam should have taught us that nationalism, with its engines of independence and self-determination, is a more powerful force by far than Marxism and must be understood and respected.

  

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• If there's some work to be done that seems like it will be fun, I'll do it. I don't take anything seriously at all.

  

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• The Left is doing to America what it has done to almost everything it has deeply influenced - the arts, the university, religion, culture, minorities, Europe: ruining it.

  

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• The whole idea of equal justice under law means that you've got to play by the rules. It has nothing to do with the underlying subject matter. You just tell the truth.

  

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• I believe in infrastructure, I believe in investing in your hard assets. Where I think government starts to fail is when it starts getting itself weighed down with the social programs. And I think the American public just feels like a lot of that money is tossed aside and wasted.

  

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• This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)

  

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• I think we shape God in our own image a lot of the time.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Thinking
  • Shapes