Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes
I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
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If you want to look at the state of humans, you should look at the state of animals first. People are choosing whether or not they can feed an animal and their family. And every shelter coast-to-coast is stuffed.
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My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with.
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The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.
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Olympic champions should be 100 per cent athletes who have made the sacrifices.
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A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.
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Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.
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I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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When the 'New York Times' revealed the warrantless surveillance of voice calls, in December 2005, the telephone companies got nervous.
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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
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The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty.
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Heroism in a bad cause.
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.
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In 'The Serpent's Egg,' I created a Berlin which no one recognized, not even I.
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I would say that in my black readership, more of my readers tolerate the horror aspect of my work, you know. 'I don't usually read this kind of stuff, but.'
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I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.
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I grew up reading 19th-century novels and late Victorian children's books, so I try for a good story full of coincidence and error, landscape and weather. However, the world was radically changed during my lifetime, and I tell of that battering as best I can.
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I said yes, which turned out to be the right answer.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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From an acting perspective, I would say that you should always try to make your own stuff. Always be ambitious about your own projects and always know better than anyone else what you're good at.
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I've never said, 'I'm squeaky clean.' It's always the people who project that image that are hiding something. No one's squeaky clean.
