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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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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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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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 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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The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.
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I'm hooked on Polanski's films, his psychological thrillers. I love 'Rosemary's Baby,' I love 'Repulsion.'
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But I felt everything right on top of me, breath against breath. I was tired, tired, tired. I said it loudly but voices die quickly, they seem alive in the bottom of the throat and yet, if articulated, they are already spent sounds.
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Free societies are societies in which the right of dissent is protected.
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Most great books have been about striving in some sense. In a sense, money is the great topic of the novel. You couldn't necessarily say that about poetry.
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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.
