Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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You know sit with your arm around a little kid and read. It not only teaches them to read but it keeps the family strong.
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Whatever I have done so far has led me to 'Kaabil.' It is a big opportunity for me to establish myself more commercially. It is a huge platform.
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And he said that he didn't want to have a war or anything like that again.
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As a writer given to the old formalities of rhyme and meter, I sometimes feel endangered these days.
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According to Celtic law, all sons equally divided the inheritance and principalities of their father.
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If only the people around you know you're an artist, then you're doing something wrong.
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There is a figure that is adored, but I'd question very strongly that it's me.
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I haven't gotten to do the leading man thing, so I would love to do that!
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Today, Negroes play on every big league club and in every minor league. With millions of other Negroes in other walks of life, we are willing to stand up and be counted for what we believe in. In baseball or out, we are no longer willing to wait until Judgment Day for equality - we want it here on earth as well as in Heaven.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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'The Sopranos' is filled with really retrograde humor. Bathroom humor, falls, stupid puns, bad jokes - infantile, adolescent stuff, but it makes me laugh.
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I used to think, 'I'm going to write.' I knew that from quite early on, but I also thought, 'Maybe I'll be an explorer or a spy,' and it all came from books.
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When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
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Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
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I don't really care about how I look.
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I have started exploring my own life and have started valuing myself. I have started valuing my individuality.
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The time is long overdue to stop looking for progress through racial or ethnic leaders. Such leaders have too many incentives to promote polarizing attitudes and actions that are counterproductive for minorities and disastrous for the country.
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I've never found it helpful to treat fate with a gentle hand. Everytime I've stroked, hopin' fer a favor, she's slapped me hand and laughed at me. If ye want something, take fate by the throat and shake it out o' her.
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Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners, only survivors.
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We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
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I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love.
