Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

• Family
• Moments
• Meditation
• Passionate
• Performing
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• The Constitution acknowledges two kinds of taxes: direct and indirect... Examples of direct taxes are income and property taxes... Examples of indirect taxes are import and excise taxes.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Two
  • Constitution
  • Taxes

• When the whole world reads your books, is there any other happiness for a writer? I am happy that my books are read in 57 languages. But I am focused on Istanbul not because of Istanbul but because of humanity. Everyone is the same in the end.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • World
  • Happy
  • Humanity

• It's a touchy subject, but as a Southerner, you can't ignore our history any more than a Renaissance painter can ignore the Virgin Mary. And it's impossible to drive down a road or eat a vegetable or pass a church without being reminded of slavery.

  

  Sally Mann
  • History
  • Church
  • Road

• It doesn't make much difference how the paint is put on as long as something has been said. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Long
  • Said
  • Difference

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Always
  • Tried
  • Object

• Sometimes you usually know the point where to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• The death of a famous person is different from the death of a loved one, whether it is Michael Jackson, Frank McCourt, or Walter Cronkite. We didn't know any of them personally, and yet, we experience a sense of loss.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Different
  • Experience
  • Death

• There are a lot of other things in this world that can and will bring me joy. Acting is one of them.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • World
  • Joy
  • Acting

• We need to increase education budgets.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Education
  • Need
  • Increase

• I thought it was a glorious thing to be a critic and to be a literary editor, and one was really doing something that mattered: to keep up standards, to take books seriously.

  

  Claire Tomalin
  • Up

• If you can maintain your standards and your integrity and you fail, it's OK. It's when you sell out and you fail that you feel pretty sick inside.

  

  Bonnie Hunt
  • Pretty
  • Sick
  • Integrity

• In relationships, I'm usually the one who's like, 'Oh, I don't need this right now. I don't need commitment. I can do well on my own. I'm independent,' and all this stuff, and I realized recently that that was making me really closed off to relationships and just closed off to anyone no matter who they were.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Independent
  • Commitment

• We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

  

  Kim Alexis
  • Different

• Comedians could do mindless things - and by mindless, I mean the easy jokes and things that you already agree with - but I find it more interesting, more of a reward, for people to feel something. I like to make a human connection, and that involves speaking emotionally, a bit more intellectually, or with a bit more moral complexity.

  

  Jerrod Carmichael
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Moral

• God's forgiveness is the only thing. And, well, I take full responsibility for the adultery. It was my fault and, you know, no matter what went on, the man has to take responsibility; and I do.

  

  Jim Bakker
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Forgiveness

• I'd like to thank everyone for all their support and prayers. I'm so humbled by that.

  

  Katie Taylor
  • Support

• Every time I give a talk, I ask the audience - especially if it's kids - how many want to go to Mars. At least half raise their hands. I don't think there's going to be any shortage of volunteers.

  

  Ellen Stofan
  • Time
  • Kids

• Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Time
  • Words
  • Meditation

• When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • Different
  • Family
  • Together

• I think it is only natural that people have anxiety about the economy because the economy is real. It is their job, their ability to service their mortgage and look after their family. And in the final analysis, nothing is more important than your capacity as a breadwinner or an earner to provide for those that rely on you.

  

  John Key
  • People
  • Important
  • Real

• I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Family
  • Moments
  • Meditation