Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
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My mother has done so much for me in my life and has continuously been there and been my rock.
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I'm almost evangelical about this, ... I'm burning all renewable energy that comes from New Hampshire.
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The eye with which you see God is the same eye with which God sees you; one in seeing; one in knowing; one in loving.
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Harmony is next to Godliness
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All acts of living become bad by ten things, and by avoiding the ten things they become good. There are three evils of the body, four evils of the tongue, and three evils of the mind.
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One fancies that what one loves cannot die.
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As long as the enemy fights he must be beaten relentlessly, but a defeated enemy and especially the civilian population must be treated generously.
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I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.
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Master the rules of the game until you can play it better they can.
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I need to just be myself, express myself.
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Baseball exemplifies a tension in the American mind, the constant pull between our atomistic individualism and our yearning for community.
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The element that people don't consider is that a friendship is about the only relationship we experience that is mutually voluntary. It is not really bound by family, money, or jobs. It is only bound by inclination. Once that is gone. It is gone. It feels powerful… it's not. It is delicate.
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We need to be smarter. We are very ignorant about things that go on in our solar system.
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It is difficult to put into words what I suffered-the longing that seemed to be tearing my heart out by the roots, the dreadful sense of being alone in an empty universe, the agonies that thrilled through me as if the blood were running ice-cold through my veins, the disgust with living, the impossibility of dying. Shakespeare himself never described this torture; but he counts it, in Hamlet, among the terrible of all the evils of existence. I had stopped composing; my mind seemed to become feebler as my feelings grew more intense. I did nothing. One power was left to me-to suffer.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Wisdom is to have dreams big enough not to lose sight when we pursue them.
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When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.
