Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• In the whole course of our work at the theatre we have been, I may say, drenched with advice by friendly people who for years gave us the reasons why we did not succeed... All their advice, or at least some of it, might have been good if we had wanted to make money, to make a common place of amusement.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• As the platform and protocol become more ingrained in society, get built into products and services, and basically become more of the mesh of society, just like the Internet, companies and people will need to own Bitcoin to play on its rails.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • People
  • Society
  • Own

• I really am a feminist, though I never used to call myself that.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Feminist

• To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Dream
  • Eyes
  • Taken

• I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Up
  • Live
  • Game

• I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • Technology
  • Missing

• It is astonishing what you can do when you have a lot of energy, ambition and plenty of ignorance.

  

  Alfred P. Sloan
  • Energy
  • Ignorance
  • Ambition

• 'For even in hell, I still have faith to one day be free with my father at the gates but make no mistakes, I'll show you what time takesto be a success on earth, mixed with all the hate'

  

  Kid Cudi
  • Time
  • Father
  • Success

• What we really have to do is stop the adjective before the job title - whether it's 'black actor,' a 'gay actor' or anything actor.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Job
  • Black
  • Stop

• Writing is a lonely profession.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Writing
  • Lonely

• I love marriage.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Marriage

• I was the class clown in school, and I was also a child actor - not on television, but in the theatre.

  

  Dean Haglund
  • School
  • Theatre

• We have failed to live up to the expectations of the public.

  

  Jay Y. Lee
  • Up
  • Live

• I was called Matt Dillon's brother my whole career basically until 'Entourage' broke me free of that and now people call me Johnny Drama instead.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Career
  • Free

• I learned a valuable lesson doing 'Mr. Sunshine,' which is that I didn't want to be in charge because it's too much. Being in charge and acting in every scene was just too difficult. It's like eating dinner in a moving golf cart every night.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • Night
  • Moving
  • Golf

• Dry deliveries. That helps when I get the ball back in my hand - like I never really stopped throwing. The goal for me is to increase arm strength.

  

  Jake Arrieta
  • Hand

• When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock.

  

  Kurt Angle
  • Up

• After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.

  

  Dean Jones
  • Up
  • Country
  • Business

• Broken families not only affect the people involved, but they have an impact on public policy decisions in Washington, D.C., and state capitols around the nation.

  

  James Lankford
  • People
  • Broken

• I believe that there are new perspectives that are needed in order for us to resolve the problems that we face as Americans and also the problems we face as people on this planet, and I believe that new perspective and new leadership is needed.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • People
  • Believe
  • Leadership

• What is not seen is as if it was not. Even the Right does not receive proper consideration if it does not seem right.

  

  Baltasar Gracian

• We are taught from the very first moment to discover Christ under the distressing disguixe of the poor, the sick, the outcasts. Christ presents Himself to us under every disguise: the dying, the paralytic, the leper, the invalid, the orphan.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Moments
  • Sick
  • Dying

• There is no language without deceit.

  

  Italo Calvino
  • Language
  • Deceit

• The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe